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Updated: June 19, 2025
There'll be no time for peeling potatoes to-morrow. Kezia!" She shrilled the name. A slim little girl showed herself between the heavy curtains of the main tent of Mrs Clowes's caravanserai. "Bring Sapphira, too!" "Those yours?" asked Jock. "They're mine," said Mrs Clowes. "And I've six more, not counting grandchildren and sons-in-law like." "No wonder you want a pailful of potatoes!" said Jock.
"A Moore comedy, They're clever stuff, Moore's comedies: always well written, and well put on when Hadow has a hand in it. You never were a playgoer, Bernard." "Not I," said Bernard Clowes.
Mrs Clowes lifted her mighty form from the stool, shook peelings from the secret places of her endless apron, and calmly sat down again. "Ye rule 'em with a rod of iron, missis," said Jock. She smiled good-humouredly and shrugged her vast shoulders no mean physical feat. "I keep 'em lively," she said. "There's twelve of 'em in my lot, without th' two babbies.
The mantelpiece was still empty, but, as Clowes pointed out, it now merely looked as if Trevor had been pawning some of his household gods. There was no sign that a devastating secret society had raged through the study. Then they adjourned to Clowes' study, where Trevor sank into Clowes' second-best chair Clowes, by an adroit movement, having appropriated the best one with a sigh of enjoyment.
'T is not alone that I love ye nigh to desperation that I beg your love; 't is that your love will help to make me the honest-living man I ambition to be. But grant the longing of my life, and I'll pledge ye happiness. Ye shall write your own marriage settlement, a house, carriages, jewels " "Indeed, Lord Clowes, even were my feelings less strong, you ask for what is now impossible."
"A beggar's thanks are lean ones, Clowes," the squire had said, over the wine; "but if ever the dice cease from throwing me blanks, ye shall find that Lambert Meredith has not forgot your loans of home and money." "Talk not to me in such strain, Meredith," replied the host, with the frank, hearty manner he could so well command.
"O-o-pen the window," spluttered Mrs Clowes to the attendant. "He's gone off; he'll come to in a minute." She was flattered. Mr Cowlishaw was for ever endeared to Mrs Clowes by this singular proof of her impressiveness. And a woman like that can make the fortune of half a dozen dentists. Arthur Cotterill awoke.
A paper on "American Locomotives and Rolling Stock," read before the Institution of Civil Engineers, in England, with an abstract on the discussion thereon, has been forwarded to us by the publishers, William Clowes and Sons, Stamford street and Charing Cross, London. We have seldom met with a pamphlet of greater interest and value.
"Their necessities are such that I fear me they are on the point of giving their daughter to that unutterable scoundrel, Clowes." Jack started as if he had been stung. "You cannot mean that, man! We sent you word he had broke his parole." "Ay," replied the baronet, flushing. "And let me tell you, John, that scarce an officer failed to go to Sir William and beg him to send the cur back to you."
"Then buy what ye can hereabout before we begin seizing, and see to it that ye buy a good surplus which ye can sell to us at a handsome advance. Our good king is a good pay-master, and I'll show ye what it is to have a friend in the commissariat." With this Clowes put spurs to his horse, confident that he had more than offset any prejudice against him that might still exist in Mr. Meredith's mind.
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