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"Certainly!" "And you cultivate social relations with Farnaby and family, notwithstanding?" "I have motives for being friendly with them, which which I haven't had time to explain to you yet." Rufus stretched out his long legs on the floor, and fixed his shrewd grave eyes steadily on Amelius.
"I suppose the climate of America " Mrs. Farnaby deliberately interrupted her husband. "How old?" she repeated, in a louder tone. I was bound, of course, to answer the lady of the house. "Some girls from eighteen to twenty. And some younger." "How much younger?" "Oh, from sixteen to seventeen."
How could I own the truth to you, before I left London, knowing you as I do? How could I expect you to be patient, to go into hiding, to pass under a false name to do all the degrading things that must be done, if we are to keep Emma out of this man's way? No! I know no more than you do where Farnaby is to be found. Hush! there is the door-bell. It's the doctor's time for his visit.
Does she really mean to leave her husband and her niece? What will Farnaby do? What will become of Regina?" To think of Regina was to think of the new repulse of which he had been made the subject. Again he had appealed to her love for him, and again she had refused to marry him at his own time.
His ruddy face was pale with suppressed rage. My early arrival had given Mrs. Farnaby an opportunity of speaking to me, which he had not anticipated in inviting me to dinner. "Come and see my pictures," he said. His wife still held me fast. Whether he liked it or not, I had again no choice but to answer her. "Some American girls, and some English," I said.
The young man, who had that moment recognized him, was his runaway porter, John Farnaby. Returning with the tickets, the porter took his repellent travelling companion by the arm, and hurried her along the platform to the train. "The money!" she whispered, as they took their places. Farnaby handed it to her, ready wrapped up in a morsel of paper.
Farnaby, to my certain knowledge, will help him. They don't suspect you. Couldn't you call again you're old enough to be her father and make some excuse to take her out with you for a walk?" The answer of Rufus to this was Roman in its brevity. He pointed to the window, and said, "Look at the rain." "Then I must try her maid once more," said Amelius, resignedly. He took his hat and umbrella.
Look'ee, shipmate, in all this crew there are no more than twenty men I can count on, nay, less ten only can I swear by. See now, here's you and Merrilees and Godby, here's Farnaby and Toby Hudd the bo'sun, Treliving the carpenter, and McLean his mate, here's Robins and Perks and Taffery the armourer good mariners all. These I can trust, shipmate, but never another one!"
I like people, or dislike them, at first sight, without knowing, in either case, whether they deserve it or not. In the one moment when our eyes met, I felt the devil in me. In plain English, I hated Mr. Farnaby! "Good morning, sir," he began, in a loud, harsh, rasping voice. "The letter you bring me takes me by surprise." "I thought the writer was an old friend of yours," I said.
He was the sort of person, in age and in temperament, who would be perfectly capable of advancing his own interests by means of the hostile influence of Mrs. Farnaby. Who could say what the result might be if, by some unlucky accident, he made the attempt before Amelius had secured for himself the support of the master of the house?
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