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If once it had seemed to her that Davenant's demands whatever they might prove to be would override all others, it was now quite clear that Ashley's claim on her stood first of all. He had been so loyal, so true, so indifferent to his own interests! Besides, he loved her. It was now quite another love from that of the romantic knight who had wooed a gracious lady in the little house at Southsea.
"I'd a great deal rather, Colonel, that " The very sound of his voice, with its harsh consonants and its absurd repetitions of the military title, grated insufferably on Ashley's ear. He was beyond himself although he seemed cool. "My good fellow, I don't care a hang what you'd a great deal rather."
"We'll find him wearin' out his pants on some salt barrel somew'ers; and if he thought you wanted a place he'd sock it to you hot and heavy. You jest keep quiet, I'll fix 'im." Butler was seated in Ben Ashley's store telling fish yarns when Council sauntered in casually. "Hello, But; lyin' agin, hey?" "Hello, Steve! How goes it?" "Oh, so-so. Too clang much rain these days.
I shall go up and inquire into this myself." I sat on the edge of the bed, waiting. In less than ten minutes the telephone bell rang again. Once more I heard Ashley's voice. "I am ringing up from your sitting-room, sir," he said. "There is no one here at all, but the room has been opened.
"Close on Ashley's heels now, Hatherell too cuts across the Square, and reaches the further gate in good time to give his confederate a hand in disposing the body against the railings.
"If you'll put yourself in my place or in Colonel Ashley's place you'll see. Try to think what it means for two people like us to go away and be happy and live in a great, fashionable world and be people of some importance knowing that some one else who was nothing to us, as we were nothing to him had to deprive himself of practically everything he had in the world to enable us to do it."
Cohen who shot perhaps wildly into the air, when suddenly attacked from behind. Mr. Ashley's explanation therefore was not only plausible, it was the only possible one.
"What company do you belong to?" "General Ashley's." "Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!," they all shouted, and we, in turn, exhausted our breath in replying. "Is that you, Jim Beckwourth?" said a voice from the party. "Yes. Is that you, Castenga?" I replied. He answered in the affirmative, and there arose another hurrah. We inquired where their camp was.
This saved Lord Ashley's life, and gave him health" Christie's Life of the first Earl of Shaftesbury, vol. ii., p. 34. 'Tapski' was a name given to Shaftesbury in derision, and vile defamers described the abscess, which had originated in a carriage accident in Holland, as the result of extreme dissipation.
"Then came the evidence of Arthur Chipps, John Ashley's valet. It proved of a very sensational character. "He deposed that on the night in question his master came home at about ten minutes to two. Chipps had then not yet gone to bed. Five minutes later Mr. Ashley went out again, telling the valet not to sit up for him. Chipps could not say at what time either of the young gentlemen had come home.
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