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He was told that you had been drowned. Go change your clothes, and be ready when I want you. How did you escape?" "Picked up by the steamer 'Firefly. Did they escape? I mean Mr. Bodine and his party." "Yes; and, as far as I can make out, left you to drown." When the physician returned Mr. Houghton roused a little, and asked, "What is the matter? Is George ill?" "No, he's better."
In this class I should, perhaps, include also Sir Robert Walpole's Houghton, where I have stayed as the guest of Cora, Lady Strafford, who occupied it for many years as a tenant, and with singular taste and knowledge so arranged the interior that every chair, sideboard, and table then in common use had been Sir Robert Walpole's own.
When a very impecunious youth, who could barely afford to pay for his cab fares, lost a pound to him at whist, Lord Houghton said, as he pocketed the coin, "Ah, my dear boy, the great Lord Hertford, whom foolish people called the wicked Lord Hertford Thackeray's Steyne and Dizzy's Monmouth used to say, 'There is no pleasure in winning money from a man who does not feel it. How true that was!
The truth is, they don't want me to hunt." "They! Who is they? 'They' don't want me to hunt. That is, Mr. Houghton doesn't. But I mean to get out of his way by riding a little forward. I don't see why that is not just as good as staying behind. Mr. Price is going to give me a lead. You know Mr. Price?" "But he goes everywhere." "And I mean to go everywhere. What's the good of half-doing it?
'I! I hold correspondence with a man of his rank and situation! How, or for what purpose? 'That you are to explain. But did you not, for example, send to him for some books? 'You remind me of a trifling commission, said Waverley, 'which I gave Sergeant Houghton, because my servant could not read.
"Confounded long way!" grunted Just. "Good thing we're both tough and strong. Except for Jeff, there aren't any athletes in the Houghton party." "Don't I see somebody coming toward us?" Doctor Churchill asked, presently. The snowfall was lightening again, and the small flame in the distance looked nearer. He put his hands to his mouth and gave a long, clear hail. He was answered by a similar one.
One of the most prominent of these was a man named W. C. Houghton, who claimed to have challenged Chabert at various times. In a newspaper advertisement in Philadelphia, where he was scheduled to give a benefit performance on Saturday evening, February 4th, 1832, he practically promised to expose the method of poison eating.
Had he lived a few years longer he would probably have altered his views, which were such as his sagacious and manly father, who dearly loved his Norfolk home, Houghton, would never have held.
Houghton, the survivor, showed much penitence, being convinced, from the rebukes and explanations of Colonel Gardiner, that he had really engaged in a very heinous crime.
George went to Bodine, whom he had never seen before, and of whom he knew nothing, and began in his half-boyish way: "Here, mine ancient, father wants Beg your pardon. Didn't know that you had lost a leg." "What is it that Mr. Houghton wishes?" said the captain coldly, and turning upon the young man a visage which impressed him instantly. "I beg your pardon again," said George.
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