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'Jemima, he said, 'will you recompense me by your love for what I have lost on the other side of the globe? She recompensed him, and he was happy. The future father and son-in-law sat and discussed their joint affairs for an hour after the ladies had retired. As to Jemima and his love, Bagwax was allowed to be altogether triumphant. Mrs. Curlydown kissed him, and he kissed Sophia.
'In some men, said Bagwax, not liking to be told that his heroic instincts were shared by all his brethren. 'But women, of course, think of the dangers. Suppose you were to be cast away! 'What matter? With a father of a family of course it would be different. But a lone man should never think of such things. Jemima shook her head and walked silently by his side.
He was therefore well disposed towards Bagwax. 'Well, Mr. Bagwax he said; 'so I understand you have got a little further in the matter since I saw you last. 'A good deal further, Sir John. 'As how? Perhaps you can explain it shortly. This was troublesome. Bagwax did not think that he could explain the matter very shortly.
'If I had some dear one who cared for me I suppose it would be different with me. 'I don't know, said Jemima. 'Gentlemen like to amuse themselves sometimes, but it doesn't often go very deep. 'Things always go deep with me, said Bagwax. 'I panted for that journey to the Antipodes; panted for it!
'Would not that be best? and you might probably find out who it was who gave this fraudulent aid. 'I could find out everything, said Bagwax, energetically; 'but 'But what? 'It is all found out there. It is indeed, Sir John. If I could get you to go along with me, you would see that that letter couldn't have gone through the Sydney post-office. 'I think I do see it.
'Just so just so, Sir John, said Bagwax, feeling that every word spoken to the lawyer renewed his own hopes of going out to Sydney, but feeling also that Sir John would be wrong, very wrong, if he subjected his client to so unnecessarily prolonged a detention in the Cambridge county prison. 'They do keep a book which would be quite conclusive. I could have the pages photographed.
Even if there had been some sort of a marriage, the woman should have taken herself off when she had received her money, and left poor Hester to enjoy her happiness, her husband, and her home at Bolton. That was the general feeling. But it was hardly thought that Bagwax, with his envelope, would prevail over Judge Bramber in the mind of the Secretary of State. Probably there had been a marriage.
This idea had also occurred to Bagwax, and he had thought whether it would be possible for him to be magnanimous enough to perfect his proof in England, so as to get a pardon from the Secretary of State at once, to his own manifest injury.
'I fear it wouldn't satisfy the ignorant, said Bagwax, thinking of his projected journey to Sydney. 'Proof is proof, said Curlydown. 'I don't think you'll ever get him out. The time has gone by. But you may do just as much here as there. 'I'm sure we shall get him out. I'll never rest in my bed till we have got him out. 'Mr.
Could it be that Shand was false, that Bagwax was false, that the postage-stamp was false, and that he only believed them to be true? Was it possible that after all his son had married the woman? He crept back to his hotel in Jermyn Street, and there he wrote his letter. 'I think I shall be home to-morrow, but I will not say so for certain.
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