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I always thought Miss Dewhurst had better taste. Rather tawdry, I call it." "I think the moustache is a mistake. It gives quite a common look to the whole thing. I wonder who he's meant to be? Pan, do you think?" uncertainly. "Oh, no, nothing so pagan, I hope," said an elderly matron, horrified. "He's that Brown boy, you know. There always seems to be something queer about anything he's in.
As Nicholas returned to the house, he perceived to his dismay Sir Ralph and Parson Dewhurst standing upon the steps; and convinced, from their grave looks, that they were prepared to lecture him, he endeavoured to nerve himself for the infliction. "Two to one are awkward odds," said the squire to himself, "especially when they have the 'vantage ground.
Aware he had committed many fooleries, he did not desire to investigate matters too closely, and only hoped he should not be reminded of them by Sir Ralph, or worse still, by Parson Dewhurst. As to his poor, dear, uncomplaining wife, he never once troubled his head about her, feeling quite sure she would not upbraid him.
Waite torn between his respect for my lord and his dislike of that particular type of joke only replied with a doubtful grunt. Lord Antony Dewhurst, one of the sons of the Duke of Exeter, was in those days a very perfect type of a young English gentlemen tall, well set-up, broad of shoulders and merry of face, his laughter rang loudly wherever he went.
We shall get it out of the boy if she refuse to answer." It was as Campbell said. The lady with the boy, who held her by the hand, had begun her return along the jetty. The companions kept walking behind; and of these, Campbell and Dewhurst fell back a little from the other two. "Hark, Campbell," said Dewhurst. "Back me against Cameron for any sum you can get out of him.
For some little time, to his vexation at the absurdity, she kept him talking of himself. So flowing was she, and so sweet the motion of her mouth in utterance, that he followed her lead, and he said odd things and corrected them. He had to describe his ride to her. 'Yes! the view of the Downs from Dewhurst, she exclaimed. 'Or any point along the ridge.
I know no more of them than you do; and, besides, I give you your choice of mother, or not mother." "Ha! ha!" laughed Campbell, as he looked intently at Dewhurst. "Are you mad, Dewhurst? Has your last triumph blinded you? The woman is too old by ten years."
It is only hurt in the wing; and I will get half-a-crown for it from one who has a garden to keep it in." "No, no," said Dewhurst, "I'll not kill it. Here's your half-crown." And the bargain was struck. Dewhurst, with the struggling bird in his hand, went down, followed by his friends, one of the side stairs to the stone rampart, by which the jetty is defended on the east. There they sat down.
And had you not spoken about my brother . . ." "A little patience, I entreat, citoyenne," he continued imperturbably. "Two gentlemen, Lord Antony Dewhurst and Sir Andrew Ffoulkes were at 'The Fisherman's Rest' at Dover that same night." "I know. I saw them there." "They were already known to my spies as members of that accursed league.
Chukkers was aware of it; so were the tens of thousands watching; so were his stable-mates. As Chukkers crossed to the rails Jackaroo, who lay in front on the inside, drew away to let the favourite up under his lee. Flibberty-gibbet, on the other hand, the second Dewhurst horse, had been bumped at the first fence, and pecked heavily on landing.
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