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The young ladies went, and Lady Middleton was happily preserved from the frightful solitude which had threatened her.
Jellicorse, of Middleton in Teesdale, had won golden opinions every where. He was an uncommonly honest lawyer, highly incapable of almost any trick, and lofty in his view of things, when his side of them was the legal one.
She was restless and miserable before; now her hands shook so violently that she could scarcely eat her breakfast. Alice acted somewhat the part of a jailer; she had to convey the disgraced girl to Middleton School. "I am ill; I won't go," said Kitty, bursting into tears.
Just on the instant of her addressing him, saying: "Father," a note of seriousness in his ear, it struck her that the occasion for saying all had not yet arrived, and she quickly interposed: "Papa"; and helped him to look lighter. The petition to be taken away was uttered. "To London?" said Dr. Middleton. "I don't know who'll take us in." "To France, papa?" "That means hotel-life."
He is headstrong, but he answers to a rap." Clara's bosom heaved. The speechless insurrection threatened her eyes. A South-west shower lashed the window-panes and suggested to Dr. Middleton shuddering visions of the Channel passage on board a steamer.
"O ye Athenians!" he exclaimed, "how hard do I work to obtain your praise!" Impatient to return to the theatre, the moment the hours destined for instruction, or, as they are termed by schoolboys, school-hours, were over, each prisoner started up with a shout of joy. "Stop one moment, gentlemen, if you please," said Dr. Middleton, in an awful voice. "Mr. Archer, return to your place.
Stokes, the goldsmith, last night to weigh at my house, and there is enough to secure L100. The Parliament not adjourned yet. 19th. Up, and to the Office, where Commissioner Middleton first took place at the Board as Surveyor of the Navy; and indeed I think will be an excellent officer; I am sure much beyond what his predecessor was.
From that, too, he emerged; and soon appeared to be a thin elderly figure, of a dark man with gray hair, bent, as it seemed to Middleton, with infirmity, for his figure still stooped even in the intervals when he did not appear to be tracking the ground.
Mr Easy threw himself panting and in agony on the other sofa, and Dr Middleton was excessively embarrassed how to act: he perceived that Mr Easy required his assistance, and that Mrs Easy could do without it; but how to leave a lady who was half really and half pretendedly in hysterics, was difficult; for if he attempted to leave her, she kicked and flounced, and burst out the more.
In fine summer weather, when the sloughs were in, and the water-courses low or dry, and the roads firm, wherever there were any, a good horse and rider, well acquainted with the track, might go from Scargate Hall to Middleton in about three hours, nearly all of the journey being well down hill.
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