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Except for occasional trips to Otley, a small market-town distant about three miles from Pool, he rarely afterwards emerged from its seclusion. It was not Time, we shall presently see he was indeed but four-and-forty years of age that had bowed his figure, thinned his whitening hair, and banished from his countenance all signs of healthy, cheerful life.
"What, a baronet, like Sir John?" "The divle a bit else." "And pray what for?" "What faw?" says Bullwig. "Ask the histowy of litwatuwe what faw? Ask Colburn, ask Bentley, ask Saunders and Otley, ask the gweat Bwitish nation, what faw?
Dykes Campbell has kindly copied for me the following extract from the 'Literary Gazette' of March 23, 1833: 'Pauline: a Fragment of a Confession', pp. 71. London, 1833. Saunders and Otley. 'Somewhat mystical, somewhat poetical, somewhat sensual, and not a little unintelligible, this is a dreamy volume, without an object, and unfit for publication.
The directors, finding in Otley a man who knew his business, whose persuasive powers induced many persons to purchase cars, and whose fearless tests at Brooklands were paragraphed in the daily newspapers, treated him most generously and left everything, even many of their financial affairs, in his hands. Lady Urquhart was, however, an ambitious woman.
By reason of her mother being the daughter of the Earl of Carringford, she had soon found herself a popular figure in a mad, go-ahead post-war set. She had known Charlie Otley soon after she had left Roedene long before they had gone out to Hong Kong and now they were back they were lovers in secret.
Soldiers were then sent into the district to protect the toll-bars and the toll-takers; but this was a difficult matter, for the toll-gates were numerous, and wherever a "pike" was left unprotected at night, it was found destroyed in the morning. The Yeadon and Otley mobs, near Leeds, were especially violent.
Bainbridge was, of course, furious, whereupon Lord Teesdale took it upon himself to go at once to London to see Otley. This he did, and when that afternoon Sanford showed his lordship unexpectedly into the room, the young man stood aghast at the news. "Tell me, Otley if you know nothing of this affair why, then, did you leave Hawstead so suddenly?" he demanded.
Was it impossible to embrace it? How pass into it? By surrendering herself to the flames, like a soul unto death! For why, if they were overpowering, attempt to resist them? It flattered her to imagine that she had been resisting them in their present burning might ever since her lover stepped on the Esperanza's deck at the mouth of Otley River. How foolish, seeing that they are fatal!
No such luck for me; only I swear if I stood between a good and a bad action, the thought of that girl would keep me straight, and I've only danced with her once! Not long after sketching this rough presentation of the lady, with a masculine hand, Wilmore was able to point to her in person on the deck of her father's yacht, the Esperanza, standing out of Otley river.
Was it impossible to embrace it? How pass into it? By surrendering herself to the flames, like a soul unto death! For why, if they were overpowering, attempt to resist them? It flattered her to imagine that she had been resisting them in their present burning might ever since her lover stepped on the Esperanza's deck at the mouth of Otley River. How foolish, seeing that they are fatal!
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