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Julia pledged her word to Janet that I would look after the old squire. I suppose I can go home this evening? My girl hates to be alone. 'By all means, said I; and the captain proposed to leave the squire at his hotel, in the event of my failing to join him in the city.
FIRST FELLOW The Squire has got spunk in him. SECOND FELLOW I loves to hear him sing, bekeays he never gives us nothing that's low. THIRD FELLOW O, damn anything that's low; I cannot bear it. FOURTH FELLOW The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if so be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly. THIRD FELLOW I likes the maxum of it. Master Muggins.
I'm a bit dirty." Nora could not restrain herself another moment. She rushed across the room, seized the bag, and laid it by her father's side. As a rule, the post-bag was quickly opened, and its small contents dispersed. These consisted of the local paper for the Squire, which was always put up with the letters, a circular or two, and, at long intervals, a letter for Mrs.
"Prove that to me," said Ryder, cunningly, "and may be I'll take you at your word." The bribe was not to be resisted. Tom revealed to her, under a solemn promise of secrecy, that the Squire had got a wife and child in Lancashire; and had a farm and an inn, which latter he kept under the name of Thomas Leicester. In short, he told her, in his way, all the particulars I have told in mine.
"I didn't mean it." "What did you mean, then?" demanded Squire Newcome, sternly. "I think you addressed me, ahem! as a scamp." "Oh, I didn't mean you," said Mrs. Mudge, almost out of her wits with perplexity. "Come in, sir, and let me give you a towel. You've no idea how I've been tried this morning."
The squire was softened, and kissed the fair hand gallantly, perhaps he kissed the lips too; at all events, the worthy pair were walking lovingly arm-in-arm when Randal joined them. He did not affect to perceive a certain coldness in the manner of Mrs.
Carlyon was seldom absent from his house during this period, only twice a year, when he spent a fortnight in London in June, and another week in November with his brother, a squire of some note in the Cornish world. Halcyone made green his old age with the exquisite quality of her opening mind.
"Why Violet, you can't have forgotten him," protested her mother, with languid astonishment. "I think he has been away long enough for me to forget even the colour of his hair, mamma; and as he hasn't written to anybody, we may fairly suppose he has forgotten us." "Vixen misses her old playfellow," said the Squire, busy with the demolition of a grouse.
"Well, Edward," he said, "it may be so, but it is, otherwise, I should say, respectable. It is not like a slum. Has Walter any particular reason for wishing to go there?" The Squire gave a grudging summary of the reasons Walter had advanced for wishing to go there, and made them appear rather ridiculous reasons.
I am sure I was most loth to disturb you, sir, with such a message; and says I, the squire has only just come off a journey " "Who is Mrs. Elton?" "Don't your honour remember the poor woman that was run over, and you were so good to, and brought into the house the day Miss Cameron " "I remember, say I will be with her in a few minutes.
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