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"I could not but regard a secret so acquired as sacred," said he; "and even though by keeping it I was actually shielding criminals, I should have been a greater traitor to betray them than to shield them." "May I say, sir," put in Ainger at this point, "that the prefects in our house last night received a confession from Munger, which corresponds exactly with what Mr Branscombe says?"
The explanation was that those who visited Branscombe knew it, and preferred its hovels to the palaces of the fashionable seaside town. No cottage was too mean to have its guest. I saw a lady push open the cracked and warped door of an old barn and go in, pulling the door to after her it was her bed-sitting-room.
His eyes glistened at the mere mention of their names, and as he sat there and talked about them, with their portraits lying on the breakfast-table before him, Mr Bickers, Branscombe, even Railsford himself vanished out of sight, and his world held nothing but just those three little absent girls of his far away in his beloved France.
"Get up here, and I'll give you some lessors. Be rude to a lady, will you?" The young man looked mildly surprised. Then he arose languidly, dextrously caught the arms of John Hopkins and conducted him irresistibly to the front door of the house. "Beware, Ralph Branscombe," cried the lady, who had followed, "what you do to the gallant man who has tried to protect me."
"I wonder what it all means?" "I heard Ponsford had been down rowing them about something this morning something some of them had been doing to Bickers, I believe." "Very likely; Bickers looked as green as a toad this morning, didn't he, Branscombe?"
Pausing on the summit to consider which way I should go, inland, towards Axminister, or along the coast by Beer, Seton, Axmouth, and so on to Lyme Regis, I turned to have a last look and say a last good-bye to Branscombe and could hardly help waving my hand to it. Why, I asked myself, am I not a poet, or verse-maker, so as to say my farewell in numbers?
It was the doctor's turn to look astonished. "Disgraced? Branscombe was always one of our model boys." "Until last term," said the father. "I don't understand you," said the doctor. "Surely, Dr Ponsford, you know by this time my son's offence. I do not attempt to excuse it. He voluntarily took the only right step to take in his position by confessing."
"With an old lawyer named Branscombe. It's awful slow, as I'm the only one, and he's old and does everything in an old-fashioned way. But the hours are easy, and I don't have to get down till nine which is nice when you've been out at a dance the night before." Norman kept his eyes down to hide from her the legion of devils of jealousy. "You have changed," he said.
After five minutes' dread lest he might be pursued, he struck a match and read: "Great Titchfield Street Branscombe 15, Churchill 11, Langtry 8, Gladstone 4. "Mortimer Street Langtry 11, Branscombe 9, Gladstone 6, Mary Anderson 6, Churchill 3. "Margaret Street Churchill 7, Anderson 6, Branscombe 5, Gladstone 4, Chamberlain 4. "Smaller streets Churchill 14, Branscombe 13, Gladstone 9, Langtry 9.
Totals for to-day: Churchill 35, Langtry 28, Gladstone 23, Branscombe 42, Anderson 12, Chamberlain nowhere." Then followed, as if in a burst of passion, "Branscombe still leading confound her." Andrew saw that Lord Randolph had been calculating fame from vesta boxes. For a moment this discovery sent Andrew's mind wandering. Miss Branscombe's photographs obstructed the traffic.
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