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Then pulled herself together as the landlady in curled fringe and long grey ulster entered the room, primming long, thin lips. "Oh! Good evening, Miss Raby," said the woman. "I'm sorry if I intrude. I heard voices down below and I didn't know who it might be. I wasn't aware, Mr. Wilson, you had visitors." "No more have I," said Godfrey lightly.
Do you think I want to see her married to to the son of a fellow like that a canting snuffler who prigs letters and splits on his own son?" and swinging the fat finger round he thrust it almost into the face of Mr. Knight. "What did you say?" gasped Godfrey. "That I am a fortune-hunter?" "Yes, that's what I said, and I'll repeat it if you like."
We all do, we are all women in that regard; although the honestest man to confess it that I ever heard of was Sir Godfrey Kneller, who said to Pope, when he was painting his picture, "I can't do so well as I should do, unless you flatter me a little; pray, flatter me, Mr. Pope! You know I love to be flattered."
"You'll keep an eye on this youngster, then, for my sake, Mudge?" said my father; "though I know you would without my asking you." "That I will, Mr Rayner," answered Mr Mudge; "I'll do all I can for him, though that may be but little." "You've got one friend on board already, Godfrey," observed my father, "through my interest. I hope you will soon have many more by your own merits."
"Very well," said Isobel. "We must keep up the game, and there are worse things to kiss than roses." He held the flower to her and she bent forward to touch it with her lips. Suddenly he did the same, and their lips came very close together on either side of the rose. This was too much for Godfrey.
"Very painful," I remarked, and got off my soda-water case. "Don't get up, it's passing off. If you're from Oxford, I must put on a coat and collar. Would you oblige me with your name?" "Godfrey Marten," I said. "Colonel Marten's son? Here, sit in this chair. I must put on two coats," and he made a most gurgly kind of sound which must have meant that he was amused with himself.
"Godfrey was very much vexed, Drusilla, not to be able to come with us," said my Aunt Ablewhite. "There was something in the way which kept him in town. Mr. Bruff volunteered to take his place, and make a holiday of it till Monday morning. By-the-by, Mr. Bruff, I'm ordered to take exercise, and I don't like it.
They dare not!" he said to himself, as he sat fast; and directly after a group of showily dressed Cavaliers appeared at the large open window above the broad porch. He could see that Sir Godfrey Markham was in the centre, with a tall fair man with a pointed beard on one side, a grey dark man on the other, and half behind him stood Scarlett, with some dozen more.
This was great good fortune for Titus, as it seemed to confirm him; but better still was in store. SIR EDMUNDBURY GODFREY, the magistrate who had first examined him, being unexpectedly found dead near Primrose Hill, was confidently believed to have been killed by the Catholics.
'I'll be d d, said the groom, 'if she has not been cutting the young ashes in the dukit park! The Laird made no answer, but continued to look at the figure which was thus perched above his path. 'Ride your ways, said the gipsy, 'ride your ways, Laird of Ellangowan; ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram!
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