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If Bellfield could only be successful, and achieve for himself the mastery over those forty thousand pounds, the world would forgive him and place, on his brow also, some not uncomfortable crown. In the mean time, his stratagems were as deep and his lies as profound as those of any general. It must not be supposed that Cheesacre ever believed him.
"I'll never get up," said he, "till you have bid me hope." "Bid you play the fiddle. Get away from my knees, at any rate. There; he'll be in the room now before " Cheesacre now did hear a sound of steps, and the door was opened while he made his first futile attempt to get back to a standing position. The door was opened, and Captain Bellfield entered.
He couldn't have said that!" "But he did, Mrs Greenow; I give you my word and honour. 'I'll pay you when I get the widow's money, he said." "You gentlemen must have a nice way of talking about me when I am absent." "I never said a disrespectful word about you in my life, Mrs Greenow, or thought one. He does; he says horrible things." "What horrible things, Mr Cheesacre?"
He could not endure to think that his friend, who paid for nothing, should carry away the honours of the morning and defraud him of the delights which should justly belong to him, "It may be becoming," said Cheesacre; "but don't you think it's awfully extravagant?" "As to that I can't tell. You see I don't at all know what is the price of a jacket covered all over with little brass buttons."
I shouldn't have thought of it only for the hint you gave me. I might as well ring the bell for Jeannette to put away the wine, if you won't take any more." Then he rang the bell, and when Jeannette came he skipped lightly up-stairs into the drawing-room. "Was he here before to-day?" said Cheesacre, nodding his head at the doorway through which Bellfield had passed. "Who? The Captain? Oh dear no.
Upon the whole the arrangement was not an uncomfortable one for people who had selected so very uncomfortable a dining-room as the sand of the sea-shore. Much was certainly due to Mr Cheesacre for the expenditure he had incurred, and something perhaps to Captain Bellfield for his ingenuity in having suggested it.
"Beautiful Switzerland! My heart pants for Switzerland. Do tell me something about Switzerland!" Mr Cheesacre had heard that Alice was the dear friend of a lady who would probably some day become a duchess. He therefore naturally held her in awe, and slunk away.
There isn't a better fellow than Bellfield living. He and I ran for the same plate, and he has won it. He's a lucky fellow, and I don't begrudge him his luck." "That's so manly of you, Mr Cheesacre! But, indeed, the plate you speak of was not worth your running for." "I may have my own opinion about that, you know." "It was not.
I don't intend that she shall think that I'm afraid of her, or of you either." "You don't; don't you?" "No, I don't," said the Captain stoutly. "I wish you'd pay me some of that money you owe me," said Cheesacre. "So I will, when I've married the widow. Ha, ha, ha." Cheesacre longed to turn him out of the house. Words to bid him go, were, so to say, upon his tongue.
"Oh, yes, sir; she is at home," said Jeannette, conscious that some occasion had arrived; and in another second he was in the presence of his angel. "Mr Cheesacre, whoever expected to see you in Norwich on a Thursday?" said the lady, as she welcomed him, using almost the same words as his friend had done in the street. Why should not he come into Norwich on a Thursday, as well as any one else?
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