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Also they learnt that Hatchings, who had left about four o'clock in the afternoon, had come back to the Castle at night. Jane Pittaway, an under-house-maid, had heard him talking to Elizabeth Twitcher in the blue drawing-room between eleven and half-past. Mr.
He shook hands with the doctor and bade him good-day. As Inspector Perkins went out of the room to send word to the coroner, he bade him send Elizabeth Twitcher to him. She was not long coming, for, in obedience to Olivia's injunction, she was engaged in learning what the other servants knew, or thought they knew, about the murder. When she came into the dining-room, Mr.
The line "That Jemmy Twitcher should peach on me I own rather surprises me" was converted at once into an innuendo at the expense of Lord Sandwich, to whom the name Jemmy Twitcher was immediately applied by the public at large, almost to the disuse, so Horace Walpole tells us, of his own title.
Elizabeth Twitcher caught her mistress's eye in the glass. Olivia made no sign. "I can't leave her ladyship's hair in this state, your lordship," said Elizabeth Twitcher with sullen firmness. "You do as you're told and clear out!" bellowed his lordship. "I don't want to be half an hour late for dinner," said Olivia, accepting the diversion and ready to make the most of it.
Carruthers, driving her flock before her towards the servants' quarters. "Thank you. And will you see that no one wakes Lady Loudwater before her usual hour, or tells her what has happened? I will tell her myself and try to break the news with as little of a shock as possible," said Mr. Manley. "Twitcher hasn't bin downstairs yet. She doesn't know anything about it," said one of the maids.
I'll have no Jemmy Twitcher with me. That's flat. Mr. Fishwick in a great rage was for insisting; but Sir George stopped him. 'On what terms? he asked the other. 'If the girl be unharmed, we go unharmed. One and all! Mr. Dunborough answered. 'Damme! he continued with a great show of bravado, 'do you think I am going to peach on 'em? Not I. There's the offer, take it or leave it.
Then she said: "It isn't it isn't a trap?" "A trap? What kind of a trap? What on earth do you mean?" said Mr. Manley, in a not unnatural bewilderment at the odd suggestion. "You might be trying to take her off her guard," said Elizabeth Twitcher in a tone of deep suspicion. "Her guard against what?" said Mr. Manley, still bewildered.
Besides, Grey had kissed her, not she him. "It's you who are lying," she said quickly and with spirit. "How could Colonel Grey admit a thing that never happened?" Lord Loudwater perceived that it was going to be harder to wring the confession from her than he had expected. Checked, he paused. Then Elizabeth Twitcher caught his attention. "Here: you clear out!" he said.
"Twitcher said that he must have had it from one of the under-gamekeepers, a young fellow called William Roper. Roper asked to see his lordship that evening and was very mysterious about his errand, so that it looks as if she might be right. None of the servants ever went near his lordship, if they could help it.
Elizabeth Twitcher continued her deft manipulation of a thick strand of hair without any change in her sullen and depressed air. To all seeming, she was uninterested, or deaf. Lord Loudwater had expected, in the face of Olivia's gentleness, to have to work himself up to a proper height of indignant fury by degrees.
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