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For the rest, she preserved her dresses, which were not amiss, for an interminable time, her sheets were always well aired, her maids often saucy, and she often in tears, but Sturk's lace and fine-linen were always forthcoming in exemplary order; she rehearsed the catechism with the children, and loved Dr.
That Sturk's brain had been shattered, and not cleared from hallucinations before he died; that having uttered the monstrous dream, in all its parts incredible, which was the sole foundation of the indictment against that every way respectable and eminent gentleman who stood there, the clerk, Irons, having heard something of it, had conceived the plan of swearing to the same story, for the manifest purpose of securing thereby the favour of the young Lord Dunoran, with whom he had been in conference upon this very subject without ever once having hinted a syllable against Mr.
Little Doctor Toole came out feeling rather queer and stunned from Sturk's house. It was past three o'clock by this time, and it had already, in his eyes, a changed and empty look, as his upturned eye for a moment rested upon its gray front, and the window-panes glittering in the reddening sun. He looked down the street towards the turnpike, and then up it, towards Martin's-row and the Mills.
'Sir, I wish there were more gentlemen of your public spirit and Christian benevolence, cried Aunt Becky, very cordially; 'and I have heard of all your goodness to that unhappy family of Doctor Sturk's poor wretched man!
So preparations were pushed forward, and Sturk's dying declaration, sworn to, late in the evening before his dissolution, in a full consciousness of his approaching death, was, of course, relied on, and a very symmetrical and logical bill lay, neatly penned, in the Crown Office, awaiting the next commission for the county.
''Tisn't every rich man has the heart to part with his money as he does; he has done many charities here, and especially he has been most bountiful to poor Sturk's family. 'I know that, said Lowe. 'And he sent a fifty pound note by the major there to poor Sally Nutter o' Monday last; he'll tell you.
Didn't you see that cursed fellow, Dangerfield, sneering at us curse him I suppose he never heard a gentleman sing before; and, by Jove, Puddock, you know you do make a fellow go over the same thing so often it's enough to make a dog laugh. A minute after Dangerfield had mounted Sturk's door-steps, and asked to see the doctor.
I have seen some plain faces once or twice look so purely spiritual, and others at times so infernal, as to acquire in their homeliness a sort of awful grandeur; and from every feature of Nutter's dark wooden face was projected at that moment a supernatural glare of baffled hatred that dilated to something almost sublime. Sturk's triumph was only momentary.
'He has ten guineas in his pocket for that a guinea a minute, by Jove, coining, no less, said the major, whose pipe was out, and he thinking of going in to replenish it. 'We'll have Toole here presently, depend upon it. He had hardly spoken when Toole, in a halo of candle-light, emerged from Sturk's hall-door.
Sturk's request, had stalked up stairs to the patient's bed-side. 'Had not I best send at once for Mr. Dangerfield? she enquired. 'No occasion, Ma'am, replied the eminent but slightly fuddled 'Saw-bones, spitting beside him on the floor 'until I see whether I'll operate to-night. What's in that jug, Ma'am? Chicken-broth? That'll do. Give him a spoonful.
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