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"My idea is to get Doyle's money back for him out of the statue." The Major thought this statement over and gradually came to suspect that O'Grady contemplated some dishonourable use of public money. He was just beginning to make a violent protest when the door of the room in which they were sitting opened, and Gallagher came in.
"Oh, that will be delightful," exclaimed Constance, "though I suspect that Nigel will require a larger sphere of action than this little island would afford." They talked much more about the future, which, to the eyes of Constance, looked bright and happy. The count, however, when alone with Nigel, expressed his anxiety on several accounts.
This morning, at the Treasury-chamber, I did meet Jack Fenn, and there he did shew me my Lord Anglesey's petition and the King's answer: the former good and stout, as I before did hear it: but the latter short and weak, saying that he was not, by what the King had done, hindered from taking the benefit of his laws, and that the reason he had to suspect his mismanagement of his money in Ireland, did make him think it unfit to trust him with his Treasury in England, till he was satisfied in the former.
Gathering a certain liking for him, he began to make him an occasional companion for the evening, and at length would sometimes take him home with him. There Cornelius at once laid himself out to please Miss Vavasor, and flattery went a long way with that lady, because she had begun to suspect herself no longer young or beautiful.
"We, in the meantime," she continued, "quiet and safe in our honesty, did not even suspect these infamous proceedings. It is true, I had been struck by some strange whisperings, by curious looks and singular smiles, when I passed some of my friends; but I had not noticed them specially. "A paper which had been left at the house one afternoon, when we were out, showed us the true state of things.
This is the lowest and wettest part of the swamp, and would be but lightly searched, for none would suspect that there was a human habitation among these brown ditches and stagnant pools." To his disappointment the lad could hear nothing of the conversation which was going on within the hut.
I've not been quite able to find out what makes them suspect him, but they do suspect him, an' it would be well to warn him not to come here, for you know there are many opportunities to commit murder on a buffalo-hunt!"
When we set down, I said: 'Now, Mis' Binney, you and the Judge take right hold, and anything you can't reach, speak out and we'll wait on you. And Mis' Binney? "Yes," she said. She was a little mite scared, I guess. B-begun to suspect somethin'." "Mis' Binney," said I, "y-you can set your cup and sarcer where you've a mind to. O-ought to have heard the Judge laugh.
He recognized that she was playing a part, and really aiding him in impressing the old man as intended. When alone, the old smoggier said: "Now, speak out, young man!" "Do you suspect Garcia's purpose?" "We are not talking about what I suspect, whale have you to tell me?" "Garcia has designs against your daughter, all his pretensions about desiring to benefit her are a part of his scheme.
'O, Miss Rose! and I was coming to you. Miss Bonner's gone back to her convulsions again. She's had them all night. Her hair won't last till thirty, if she keeps on giving way to temper, as I tell her: and I know that from a barber. 'Tush, you stupid Polly! Does she want to see me? 'You needn't suspect that, Miss. But you quiet her best, and I thought I'd come to you. But, gracious!
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