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He grew overbearing and cool, I thought; at any rate I did not admire my situation as his follower and dependant, and left his grand dinner for a certain ordinary, where I could partake of five capital dishes for ninepence. Occasionally, however, Attwood favored me with a visit, or gave me a drive behind his great cab-horse. He had formed a whole host of friends besides.
Don't let him go, Will this sort of thing doth make the whole world kin! Come, Master Attwood, sit thee down, and make thyself at home. 'Tis not my house, but 'tis my friend's, and so 'tis all the same in the Lowlands. Be free of us and welcome." "I thank ye, sirs," said the tanner, slowly, turning to the table with rough dignity. "Ye ha' been good to my boy. I'll ne'er forget ye while I live.
I did not much admire the impudence or the appearance of my friend, nor the fixed stare with which he chose to examine me. At last, he thrust a great greasy hand across the table, and said, "Titmarsh, do you forget your old friend Attwood?"
No less offence was given to Scotland by the English Whig writer William Attwood, whose Superiority and Direct Dominion of the Imperial Crown of England over the Crown and Kingdom of Scotland, the true Foundation of a Compleat Union reasserted , was burnt as "scurrilous and full of falsehoods," whilst a liberal reward was voted to Hodges and Anderson, who by their pens had advocated the independence of the Scotch crown.
But Simon Attwood went down to the river, and sat upon a flat stone under some pollard willows, and looked into the water. What his thoughts were no one knew, nor ever shall know; but he was fighting with himself, and more than once groaned bitterly.
My reply was, that I was coming to Jack, only in the morning, to borrow a similar sum. He did not make any reply, but turned away homeward: I never heard him speak another word. Gortz: "DEAR T., I wish you would come over here to breakfast. There's a row about Attwood. Yours truly, I immediately set forward to Gortz's; he lived in the Rue du Helder, a few doors from Attwood's new lodging.
It may be supposed that, with the life he led, his five hundred pounds of winnings would not last him long; nor did they; but, for some time, his luck never deserted him; and his cash, instead of growing lower, seemed always to maintain a certain level: he played every night. Of course, such a humble fellow as I, could not hope for a continued acquaintance and intimacy with Attwood.
She stared at him. "And thou dost hate my father so? Oh, Nick! oh, Nick!" "Will ye be gone?" called Simon Attwood, half-way opening the gate; "must I set constables on thee?" Nick did not move. A numbness had crept over him like palsy. Cicely caught him by the hand. "Come, let us go back to my father," she said. "He will not turn us out."
Gortz was nothing loth, but was quite as valorous as the lawyer. Attwood, who, in spite of his potations, seemed the soberest man of the party, had much enjoyed the scene, until this sudden demand for the weapons. "Pshaw!" said he, eagerly, "don't give these men the means of murdering each other; sit down and let us have another song."
He must be hurt, or he'd 'a' come home to his mother" and she began to wring her hands. "He may ha' fallen from a tree, and lieth all alone out on the hill or, Simon, the Avon! Thou dost na think our lad be drowned?" "Fudge!" said Simon Attwood. "Born to hang'll never drown!" When, however, the next day crept around and still his son did not come home, a doubt stole into the tanner's own heart.
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