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How would it be, if he summoned courage enough to tell her that he was engaged to be married? No! Setting aside his natural dread of the shock that he might inflict on the poor grateful girl who had only known happiness under his care, the detestable obstacle of Mr. Farnaby stood immovably in his way.
She grew more and more excited; she positively laid her hand on my arm in her eagerness to secure my attention all to herself. "American girls or English?" she resumed, her fat, firm fingers closing on me with a tremulous grasp. "Shall you be in town in November?" said Mr. Farnaby, purposely interrupting us again. "If you would like to see the Lord Mayor's Show " Mrs.
"The money's my business," she remarked. "You tell me where he lives and I'll make him pay me." Jervy was equal to the occasion. "You won't do anything of the sort," he said. Mrs. Sowler laughed defiantly. "So you think, my fine fellow!" "I don't think at all, old lady I'm certain. In the first place, Farnaby don't owe you the debt by law, after seven years.
Ronald descended the narrow street which leads from the high land of the South-Eastern railway station to the port of Ramsgate. Asking his way of the first policeman whom he met, he turned to the left, and reached the cliff on which the houses in Albion Place are situated. Farnaby followed him at a discreet distance; and the woman followed Farnaby. Arrived in sight of the lodging-house, Mr.
Farnaby, at their first interview, had been overheard by the unknown person who had opened the swinging window in the kitchen, he might have recalled Phoebe's vindictive language at his lodgings, and the doubts suggested to him by his discovery of the vagabond waiting for her in the street. As it was, he was simply puzzled.
The Elder Brother, at Tadmor, used to say it was sympathy. But he is a sentimentalist. Well, Mr. Farnaby presented me to his wife and then walked away as if he was sick of us both, and looked out of the window. For some reason or other, Mrs. Farnaby seemed to be surprised, for the moment, by my personal appearance. Her husband had, very likely, not told her how young I was.
"You, Amos Penarth, and you, Richard Farnaby, aye and half a dozen others o' ye, you've sailed wi' me ere now and you know when I say a thing I mean it. And you'd fight, would ye, my last words to you being 'see to it there be no quarrelling or riot." "Why, Cap'n," says one, "'tis all along o' these new 'listed rogues "
Phoebe lifted her eyebrows with a look of contemptuous surprise, which was an answer in itself. "Fancy the great Mr. Farnaby going by an assumed name, and having his letters addressed to a public-house!" she said to Jervy. Mrs. Sowler asked no more questions. She relapsed into muttering to herself, under her breath.
Farnaby was not the less determined that the marriage should never take place, and not the less eager to secure the assistance of her new ally. "When will Amelius tell you about it?" she asked. "When I go back to his lodgings, ma'am." "Go back at once and bear this in mind as you go. I'm as fond of Amelius as you are. Ask him if I haven't done my best to keep him away from my niece.
Ormond had business in town: and she left Miss Regina at her own door, nearly two hours since." "Well?" "Well, sir, I had hardly taken off my bonnet and shawl, when I was sent for by Mrs. Farnaby. 'Have you unpacked your box yet? says she. I told her I hadn't had time to do so. 'You needn't trouble yourself to unpack, says she. 'You are no longer in Miss Regina's service.
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