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He's as sharp wi' me as one o' them lawyer chaps, dang 'em, and he's a lot of I O's and rubbitch o' mine; and Bryerly writes to me he can't gi'e me my legacy, 'cause he's got a notice from Archer and Sleigh a warnin' him not to gi'e me as much as a bob; for I signed it away to governor, he says which I believe's a lie. I may a' signed some writing 'appen I did when I was a bit cut one night.
I saw him look at you, Maud, and I liked his face, though it is abominably ugly and vulgar, and cunning, too; but I think he's a just man, and I dare say with right feelings I'm sure he has. I was quite at a loss to divine the gist of my cousin's criticism. 'I'll have some talk with Dr. Bryerly; I feel convinced he takes my view, and we must really think what had best be done.
Yes, you're trembling you're terrified, child. 'I believe I am afraid. There is something in poor papa's will about Uncle Silas about me. I don't know Doctor Bryerly says, and he seems so uncomfortable and frightened himself, I am sure it is something very bad. I am very much frightened I am I am. Oh, Cousin Monica! you won't leave me?
'Lead us not into temptation; if we pray so, we must not mock the eternal Majesty of Heaven by walking into temptation of our own accord. This oracular sentence was not uttered by my uncle until Doctor Bryerly had been gone at least five minutes.
While in whispers we were debating this point together, the door opened, the dusky light of a candle emerged, the shadow of a figure crossed it within, and in another moment the mysterious Doctor Bryerly angular, ungainly, in the black cloth coat that fitted little better than a coffin issued from the chamber, candle in hand; murmuring, I suppose, a prayer it sounded like a farewell as much frightened as if I had just seen a sorcerer stealing stepped cautiously upon the gallery floor, shutting and locking the door upon the dead; and then having listened for a second, the saturnine figure, casting a gigantic and distorted shadow upon the ceiling and side-wall from the lowered candle, strode lightly down the long dark passage, away from us.
Bryerly you recollect the thin gentleman, in spectacles and a black wig, who spent three days here last month should come and enquire for the key, you understand, in my absence. 'Yes, sir. So he kissed me on the forehead, and said 'Let us return. Which, accordingly, we did, in silence; the storm outside, like a dirge on a great organ, accompanying our flitting.
Bryerly you recollect the thin gentleman in spectacles and a black wig, who spent three days here last month? should come and enquire for the key, you understand, in my absence." "But you will then be absent, sir," I said. "How am I to find the key?" "True, child. I am glad you are so wise. That, you will find, I have provided for.
On reaching the little apartment which was our sitting-room, however, I found that she was mistaken; for Doctor Bryerly, with his hat and a great pair of woollen gloves on, and an old Oxford grey surtout that showed his lank length to advantage, buttoned all the way up to his chin, had set down his black leather bag on the table, and was reading at the window a little volume which I had borrowed from my uncle's library.
'You're surprised, I dare say, to see me here so soon again? 'I did not know you had arrived. I am glad to see you, Doctor Bryerly. Nothing unpleasant, I hope, has happened? 'No, nothing unpleasant, Miss.
I do not think one of us believed at the moment that what we had seen was a Doctor Bryerly of flesh and blood, and yet the first thing we spoke of in the morning was Doctor Bryerly's arrival. The mind is a different organ by night and by day. Doctor Bryerly had, indeed, arrived at half-past twelve o'clock at night.
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