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Dangerfield's most advantageous offer. 'Oh, indeed! said Lily, becoming interested. 'Well, I suppose you suspected she had a secret? said Aunt Rebecca. 'I can only say, dear Aunt Becky, she has not told it to me. 'Now, listen to me, my dear, said Aunt Becky, laying her fan upon Lily's arm. 'So sure as you sit there, Gertrude likes somebody, and I think I shall soon know who he is.
'It will seem incredible. You've heard of Mr. Dangerfield's proposal, and you've heard how I've received it. Well, listen. 'Gertrude, dear! said Lily, who was growing frightened. 'I'm going, interrupted Miss Chattesworth, 'to tell you my strange, if you will, but not guilty no, not guilty secret. I'm no agent now, but simply passive in the matter.
I think he acquiesced in Dangerfield's dreadful estimate of Charles Archer's character. 'But we must give the devil his due; Charles can do a handsome thing sometimes. You shall judge.
''Tis no such thing, Sir; 'tis a contract, thundered Dillon, pulling Dangerfield's note of promise from his pocket, and dealing it a mighty slap with the back of his hand. 'Contract or no, Sir, there's nobody liable for it but himself. 'We'll try that, Sir; and in the meantime, what the divil am I to do, I'd be glad to know; for strike me crooked if I have a crown piece to pay the coachman.
So Dangerfield's little dyspepsy had like to have cured one or other of the village leeches, for ever and a day, of the heart-ache and all other aches that flesh is heir to. For Dangerfield commenced with Toole: and that physician, on the third day of his instalment, found that Sturk had stept in and taken his patient bodily out of his hands.
Dangerfield came out of the park, Sir James diplomatically fell to lauding the Twins to the skies, their beauty, their grace and their intelligence. He could not have found a quicker way to Mrs. Dangerfield's approval. She had been disposed to dislike him for having been blackmailed by them; his praise of them softened her heart.
As he moved through the bracing autumn air, his spirits rose yet higher; that night that very night he would crown Mrs. Dangerfield's devotion with his avowal of an answering passion. He pressed forward swiftly like a conqueror; and like a conqueror he whistled. Then he found the clothes-line, suddenly, pitched forward and fell, not heavily, for the mud was thick, but sprawling.
'Go on, if you please, Ma'am, and let me see it. So to the hall they went, and there, lying across the pegs from which Mr. Dangerfield's surtout and riding-coat depended, there certainly was a whip with the butt fashioned very much in the shape described by Captain Cluffe; but alas, no weapon a mere toy leather and cat-gut.
All the way to Colet House, he maintained a gay facetious flow of personal talk that made Erebus grind her teeth, now and again suffused the face of Wiggins with a flush of mortification that dimmed his freckles, and wrinkled Mrs. Dangerfield's white brow in a distressful frown.
Dangerfield's chin opposed to the three days' beard of Black Dillon! how delicate his features compared with the lurid proboscis, and huge, sensual, sarcastic mouth of the gentleman in the dirty morning-gown and shapeless slippers, who confronted him with his glare, an image of degradation and power!
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