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Doctor Castleton soon, against all protests, bounded out of the door, as he had bounded in; and then Bainbridge and I discussed the astonishing possibilities should it prove true that Dirk Peters was within our reach. We concluded that Castleton's statement was one of great importance, and we agreed upon a course of procedure.
An immaculate black man opened the door and took the men's hats. "Ask Mrs. Stevens to come down," Cousin Giles said. Mrs. Stevens seemed a great lady. Eudora Castleton's mother was like this, always looking as if she was dressed for a party. She had a pretty silk gown, with some ruffles about the bottom, short enough to show her clocked silk stockings.
He walked to and fro before the overhanging shelf of rock, where his companions sat lamenting, and presently he went out to the ledge of the bench. The cowboys below had built a fire, and the light from it rose in a huge, fan-shaped glow. Castleton's little figure stood out black against this light. Curious and anxious also, Madeline joined him and peered down from the cliff.
The lawyer, Mr Shallard, on whom Adam next called, had the character of being an honest man, and having for many years been Sir Reginald Castleton's adviser, he was universally looked up to and trusted by all classes, except by these litigants who were conscious of the badness of their causes. He was a tall, thin man, of middle age, with a pleasant expression of countenance.
Fanny Trevanion seemed to have come into the world with silk shoes, not to walk where there was a stone or a brier. I heard something, in the gossip of those around, that confirmed this view of Lady Castleton's character, while it deepened my admiration of her lord, and showed me how wise had been her choice, and how resolutely he had prepared himself to vindicate his own.
"I won't ask you to break such an engagement," said Harry, smiling archly; "but if you and Julia will ride over in the afternoon, I will come back and meet you, for I want my sister to become better acquainted with May." "I shall be at Miss Castleton's service, and will gladly accompany her," said Headland. The two friends continued pacing up and down the moonlight walk.
It was a sad thing that a sweet innocent creature like her should have been cut off in her young days." Adam had just recounted to his wife his interviews with the mayor and lawyer of Morbury, and had listened to her history of Mr Herbert Castleton's family, and the unhappy fate of his daughter, when a knock was heard at the door. The dame opened it, but drew back on seeing their visitor.
I will not add, "but makes a very poor figure by itself," for that Lady Castleton's conversation certainly did not do, perhaps, indeed, because it was not "by itself," and the gold leaf was all the better for being thin, since it could not cover even the surface of the sweet and amiable nature over which it was spread.
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