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Papegot or no, he was a priest of the Most High. He was white and dry as a bone, and his eyes burned glassily. Captain Bovill, who liked not the dark brothers, would have made him prisoner, for he thought him a forerunner of a Spanish force, but he held up a ghostly hand and all of us were struck with a palsy of silence. For the man was on the very edge of death.
Bovill, in a changed and sullen tone; "I am not quite the madman you think me. But I dare say I have been too hasty and too rough. Nevertheless the facts are as I have stated them, and I do not see how, as a man of honour, you can get off marrying my niece.
"This dress," she said contemptuously, "this dress; is not that easily altered with shops in the town?" "Gad!" muttered Mr. Bovill, "that youngster is a second Solomon; and if I can't manage Elsie, she'll manage a husband whenever she gets one."
To the south of this tomb is the large and elaborate modern monument to Archdeacon Duncombe, which has nothing, either in workmanship or design, to recommend. To the north is the tomb of Archbishop Sewall de Bovill, who succeeded Archbishop de Grey. His sepulchre, says Drake, was much frequented after his death by the common people, who reported many miracles to be done at it.
The action of ejectment was tried before Chief Justice Bovill at the Common Pleas, Westminster. I must explain how it was that I, having been retained to lead Coleridge, was afterwards compelled to be led by him; and it is an interesting event in the history of the Bar as well as of the Judicial Bench. The action was really a Western Circuit case, although the venue was laid in London.
If she have any female relation, to that relation transfer your charge." "I have! I have!" cried Elsie; "my lost mother's sister: let me go to her." "The woman who keeps a school!" said Mr. Bovill sneeringly. "Why not?" asked Kenelm. "She never would go there. I proposed it to her a year ago. The minx would not go into a school." "I will now, Uncle."
There was immediately a vacancy on the Bench; Collier was appointed to the judgeship, and in three days had acquired all the experience that the Act of Parliament anticipated as necessary for the higher appointment in the Privy Council. Instead of leading, therefore, in the case before Chief Justice Bovill, I had to perform whatever duties Coleridge assigned to me.
Bovill thus spoke, and Kenelm listened, neither saw that the door had been noiselessly opened and that Elsie stood at the threshold. Now, before Kenelm could reply, she advanced into the middle of the room, and, her small figure drawn up to its fullest height, her cheeks glowing, her lips quivering, exclaimed, "Uncle, for shame!"
Would you break that heart? No, young man: you are not a villain. Shake hands on it!" "Mr. Bovill," said Kenelm, recovering his wonted equanimity, "I am inexpressibly flattered by the honour you propose to me, and I do not deny that Miss Elsie is worthy of a much better man than myself. But I have inconceivable prejudices against the connubial state.
To Kenelm's great relief, Mr. Bovill rose from the table with a beaming countenance, and extending his hand to Kenelm, said, "Sir, you are a gentleman; sit down, sit down and take breakfast." Then, as soon as the maid was out of the room, the uncle continued, "I have heard all your good conduct from this young simpleton. Things might have been worse, sir."
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