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But, notwithstanding the state of his temper, he knew it might be his only chance to shine pre-eminently at that moment in amiability, wit, grace, and gallantry, and, though it was up-hill work, he did labour uncommonly. When Mr. Dangerfield's spectacles gleamed through the crowd upon Dr.
The consequences of Dangerfield's incarceration upon these awful charges, were not confined altogether to the Tiled House and the inhabitants of Belmont.
He squeezed the silver Dangerfield's little remembrance with a furious strain, and ground his teeth. 'I'm like a man surrounded. I wish I was out of it all! he muttered, with a care-worn glance. So he entered the public-house. There was not much business doing.
And he now heard some of the club gossip, and all about Dangerfield's proposal for Gertrude Chattesworth, and how the old people were favourable, and the young lady averse and how Dangerfield was content to leave the question in abeyance, and did not seem to care a jackstraw what the townspeople said or thought and then he came to the Walsinghams, and Devereux for the first time really listened.
And indeed, since Dangerfield's arrival, and Sturk's undisguised endeavours to ingratiate himself with Lord Castlemallard, and push him from his stool, they had by consent ceased to speak to one another.
'Now, do tell me, Gertrude, if it be so tell me, dear love. I know 'tis a hard thing to say, and Aunt Becky considerately began to fiddle with the ribbon at the back of her niece's nightcap, so that she need not look in her face; 'but, Gertie, tell me truly, do you like him; and and why, if it be so, I will mention Mr. Dangerfield's suit no more. There now there's all I want to say.
'He left the town, Sir, last night; and I've reason to suspect, with a resolution of returning no more. And I must speak plainly, Mr. Dangerfield, 'tis no subject for trifling the fame and fortune of a noble family depend on searching out the truth; and I'll lose my life, Sir, or I'll discover it. Still the old cynical, quizzical smile on Dangerfield's white face, who said encouragingly
Dangerfield's valediction, and took clerical advice upon it, and for several months after became a very serious and ascetic character; and I do believe that the words were spoken in reality with that sinister jocularity in which his wit sported like church-yard meteors, when crimes and horrors were most in his mind.
The appearance of Dangerfield's body, which had been frightfully lacerated by the whip, inclined many to believe that his death was chiefly, if not wholly, caused by the stripes which he had received.
The days were long, but the voyage was short, and it had almost come to an end before Count Otto yielded to an attraction peculiar in its nature and finally irresistible, and, in spite of Mrs. Dangerfield's emphatic warning, sought occasion for a little continuous talk with Miss Pandora.
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