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Ferrars looked exceedingly angry, and drawing herself up more stiffly than ever, pronounced in retort this bitter philippic, "Miss Morton is Lord Morton's daughter." Fanny looked very angry too, and her husband was all in a fright at his sister's audacity.
Informally the King would have seemed to be more or less his own master at the end of Morton's Regency, when, though subject to "raids" like that of Gowrie and the contending influence of one party after another, there was no longer any Regent thought of, and the business of the country was conducted formally in the King's name.
On the very next day, the very morning on which she would go and sit, -ah so uselessly, by the dying man's bedside, her father was to meet Lord Rufford at the ducal mansion in Piccadilly to see if anything could be dome in that quarter! It was impossible that she should really care whether John Morton's lease of life was to be computed at a week's purchase or at that of a month!
On rushed Morton; young Doull was by his side. "There's some people with a lady, sir," he exclaimed, making a dash towards a path which led down a dell on one side. There were several men, and Ronald at that moment caught sight of a female dress among them. Morton's quick ear recognised Edda's voice. "Oh, save me! save me!" she cried out.
"Yes, sir," said the man, with a queer look which I understood, though Tom did not, "this is Mr. Morton's." "And the chestnut is Mr. Atkins'?" asked my cousin. "Just so, sir; Mr. Atkins'," said the man, with the corners of his mouth twitching.
Morton's object was to get sufficiently out to sea to ascertain the position of the ship. The rapid diminution of the strength of the wind enabled him to do this with greater ease than had at first appeared possible; still the sea came rolling in as fiercely as before, and rendered the greatest caution necessary to prevent the boat being swamped.
Beaufort, more and more exasperated by Morton's forbearance, raised his hand as if to strike; when, at that moment, one hitherto unobserved one who, terrified by the scene she had witnessed but could not comprehend, had slunk into a dark corner of the room, now came from her retreat. And a child's soft voice was heard, saying: "Do not strike him, papa! let him have his brother!" Mr.
John C. Warren should be the one to introduce painless surgery to the medical profession. Next to Morton he deserves the highest credit for the revolution which it effected: a glorious revolution, fully equal to that of 1688. His quick recognition of Morton's character, and the confidence he placed in him as the man of the hour, deserve the highest commendation.
'A safe place? Why, my dear, just think! he has bought all of Mr. Morton's right and title there; with Mr. Morton's three mills. Of course, it must have taken very nearly his whole fortune; it must. 'I fancy there's a trifle left over, said Mr. Falkirk. 'But I can't conceive what possessed him. What does Rollo know of the mill business? 'Nothing at all, of course, said Prudentia.
It was the din of this conflict, maintained chiefly between Poundtext and Kettledrummle, together with the clamour of their adherents, which had saluted Morton's ears upon approaching the cottage.
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