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"Agreed, agreed, I think that, without troubling him, we might have captured this Varney; but that's over now, and, as soon as Jack Pringle chooses to wake up again, I'll send him to the Bannerworths with a message." "Ay, ay, sir," said Jack, suddenly; "all's right." "Why, you vagabond," said the admiral, "I do believe you've been shamming!" "Shamming what?" "Being drunk, to be sure."
"That I cannot, sir; but, if anybody knows anything about him, it's Mr. Henry Bannerworth, or perhaps Dr. Chillingworth, for they have had more to do with him than anybody else." "Indeed; and can you tell me the address of the former individual?" "That I can't, sir, for the Bannerworths have left the Hall.
"She lives and is well." "Thank Heaven. Do with me what you please." Dr. Chillingworth sprang forward, and addressing the magistrate, he said, "Sir, I know this gentleman. He is no one of the rioters, but a dear friend of the family of the Bannerworths. Charles Holland, what in the name of Heaven had become of you so long, and what brought you here at such a juncture as this?"
He had a small independence of his own, and being completely alone in the world, for he had neither wife nor child, Marchdale owned that he felt a pleasure in residing with the Bannerworths.
"If you are determined upon remaining, I cannot help it; but, when some one, as there assuredly will, comes from the Bannerworths, here, to me, or I shall be under the necessity of stating candidly that you are intruding." "Very good. As the morning air is keen, and as we now are not likely to be as good company to each other as we were, I shall go inside the house."
The ordinary little casualties of evil fortune had certainly from time to time, in the shape of illness, and one thing or another, attacked the family of the Bannerworths in common with every other family, but here suddenly had arisen a something at once terrible and inexplicable. He found Mr. Marchdale up and dressed, and apparently in deep and anxious thought. The moment he saw Henry, he said,
Such then may be considered by our readers as a brief outline of the state of affairs among the Bannerworths a state which was pregnant with changes, and which changes were now likely to be rapid and conclusive.
Varney did look fearfully exhausted; and, with the assistance of Henry and Charles, he went into another apartment, and laid down upon a couch, showing great symptoms of debility and want of power. And now it was a calm; Varney's stay at the cottage of the Bannerworths was productive of a different mood of mind than ever he had possessed before.
Sir Francis bowed as well as he was able, and even then, sore and bruised as he was, fugitive as he had been, he could not forget his courtesy; but it was not without an effort. His equanimity was, however, much disturbed, by finding himself in the midst of the Bannerworths. "I owe you a relation," he said, "of what occurred to drive me from my place of concealment."
The Bannerworths lived sufficiently distant from the town to be out of earshot of the disturbances which were then taking place; and so completely isolated were they from all sort of society, that they had no notion of the popular disturbance which Varney the vampyre had given rise to. It was not until the following morning that Mr.
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