United States or Bouvet Island ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Hopgood; and so charming was the smell of eggs and bacon, and they had such an air of tender enjoyment of this dark revel, that I stifled many pangs, as I crept hungry up to bed. In the middle of the night I woke and heard what I thought was screaming; then it sounded like wind in trees, then like the distant shaking of a tambourine, with the high singing of a human voice.
The declarations of Stebbins and Hopgood were easily proved; and Harry had no further difficulty in resuming possession of Greatwood. Clapp was not heard of for years. His wife, little Willie, and two younger children, became inmates of the old grey cottage, under the care of Miss Patsey, who still continues the same honest, whole-souled, benevolent being she was years ago.
No meat, by the way, was ever roasted it was considered wasteful everything was baked or boiled. After half-past four not a bit of anything that was not cold was allowed till the next morning, and, indeed, from the first of April to the thirty-first of October the fire was raked out the moment tea was over. Mrs Hopgood one night was not very well and Clara wished to give her mother something warm.
Mrs Hopgood bethought herself that her daughters were talking too much to one another, as they often did, even when guests were present, and she therefore interrupted them. 'Mr Palmer, you see both town and country which do you prefer? 'Oh! I hardly know; the country in summer-time, perhaps, and town in the winter.
"Where did you next meet Hopgood?" "Well, I was mad when I found he had got them papers; but the lawyer had left a message with my mother, saying if I came home, she was to tell me I'd hear something to my advantage by applying to him. So I went after him to the place where he lives; and sure enough there was Hopgood, and he and Clapp as thick as can be together.
"Pretty much all; they said it was easy to make people believe Hopgood was William Stanley, for he looked so much like the young man, that he had been asked if that wasn't his name. He said it was that first gave him the notion of passing off for William Stanley that, and knowing all about the family, and the young man himself.
Still she was very charming, and it must be confessed that sometimes her spontaneity was truer than the limitations of speech more carefully weighed. 'What makes you stay in Fenmarket, Mrs Hopgood? How I wish you would come to London!
'I should hardly have thought that a reason for parting with good lodgers. Mrs Hopgood had intended to move, as before explained, but she did not wish to go till the three months had expired. 'I don't say as that is everything, but if you wish me to tell you the truth, Miss Madge is not a person as I like to keep in the house.
Having given me thus to understand that she had run dry, she at once went on: "Cap'en Jan Pearse made a dale of ventures. He's old now they du say nigh an 'undred. Ha-apgood can tell yu." "But the son, Mrs. Hopgood?" Her eyes twinkled with sudden shrewdness: She hugged herself placidly. "An' what would yu take for dinner to-day?
Hopgood, who was generally supposed by those who had known him, to have died at New Orleans twenty years since, had been often with William Stanley when a lad in the lawyer's office; he knew the house and neighbourhood of Greatwood perfectly, and had a distinct recollection of Mr. Stanley, the father, and of many persons and circumstances that would prove very useful.
Word Of The Day