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Northwick left Elbridge the reins, and got out of the cutter at the flight of granite steps which rose to the ground-floor of his wooden palace. Broad levels of piazza stretched away from the entrance under a portico of that carpentry which so often passes with us for architecture.
This place he called Julians, and the land runs up to the foot of the hill on which the school and the church stand, on the side towards London. Things there went much against him; the farm was ruinous, and I remember that we all regarded the Lord Northwick of those days as a cormorant who was eating us up. My father's clients deserted him.
The relation of the Northwick family to the coming entertainment, and an impression of frail mottled wrists and high thin cheeks, and an absence of modelling under affluent drapery, was the main effect of Miss Northwick's visit. When Annie returned it, she met the younger sister, whom she found a great beauty.
He may not be a conscious humbug, but he's certainly a humbug. Take that pretence of his that he would come back and stand his trial if he believed it would not result in greater harm than good by depriving him of all hope of restitution!" "Why, there's a sort of crazy morality in that," said Corey. "Perhaps," said Bellingham, "the solution of the whole matter is that Northwick is cracked."
Northwick brings forth fruits meet for repentance when he makes the first payment to his creditors I will believe that he is sorry for what he has done, and not till then." "That is true," said Mrs. Munger. "I wonder what Mr. Putney will have to say to all this.
"If they was to double and treble the reward, I'd slap 'em in the face first. Bring him along, Elbridge." As Northwick no more moved than spoke, Newton took him by the arm, and helped him down the piazza-steps and into the dark of the avenue, tunnelled about their feet by the light of the lantern, as they led and pushed their helpless capture toward the lodge at the avenue gate.
The doctor 'e say to let you see you' money the first thing. Shall I put it hon you?" Northwick looked at the belt; it seemed to him that the bunch the bills made would hurt him, and he said, weakly, "You keep it for me." "Hall right," said Bird, and he took it away.
"He seemed to think we had better let it alone for the present; better wait and see if Mr. Northwick would not try to communicate with his family." "I'm not so sure of that," said Hilary. "If this fellow is such a fellow as you say, I don't see why we shouldn't make use of him at once." "Make use of him to get Mr. Northwick back?" said Matt.
I am born at Quebec" in his tremulous inattention, Northwick was aware that the man had said the same thing to him all those years before, with the same sidelong glance for the effect of the fact upon him "and I came here when I was twenty. Now I am sixty. Hall the Americans know me. I used to go into the bush with them for bear.
Northwick was a man of too much sense to reason explicitly to this effect, but there was a sophistry, tacitly at work in him to this effect, which made it possible for him to go on and steal more where he had already stolen so much. In fact it presented the further theft as a sort of duty.
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