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He was not much of a player; and the sight of Dangerfield that repulsive, impenetrable, moneyed man, who had 'overcome him like a summer cloud, when the sky of his fortunes looked clearest and sunniest, always led him to Belmont, and the side of his lady-love. If Cluffe's mind wandered in that direction, his reveries were rather comfortable.
Puddock had a second pair, and Cluffe's own had not, he thought, quite recovered their good looks since that confounded ducking on the night of the serenade.
By this time Lillyman was running like mad from Cluffe's lodgings along Martin's Row to the rescue of Puddock, who, at that moment with his friends and the aid of a long pole, was poking into a little floating tanglement of withered leaves, turf, and rubbish, under the near arch of the bridge, in the belief that he was dealing with the mortal remains of Cluffe.
In fact, a very angry and pathetic funeral oration, during which, accompanied by Doctor Toole, Lieutenant Puddock, in person, entered; and the colonel stopped short with his eyes and mouth very wide open, and said the colonel very sternly. 'I I'm glad to see, Sir, you're safe: and and I suppose, I shall hear now that Cluffe's drowned? and he stamped the emphasis on the floor.
'And to-morrow I will certainly pay her my respects, said the lieutenant, not answering Cluffe's remark. So Gertrude Chattesworth, after her long agitation often despair was tranquil at last, and blessed in the full assurance of the love which was henceforth to be her chief earthly happiness.
'Twas fixed, in fact, in Cluffe's mind that Dangerfield was the man; and what the plague need had a declared lover of any such clandestine manoeuvres. Was it possible that the old scoundrel was, after all, directing his night visits differently, and keeping the aunt in play, as a reserve, in the event of the failure of his suit to the niece?
Cluffe, with a certain air of haut ton, and in an imposing way, to Cluffe's entire content, who liked the idea of overawing his peers.
Though they hardly glanced at the topic to one another, each had his delightful anticipations of the chances of the meeting. Puddock did not value Dangerfield a rush, and Cluffe's mind was pretty easy upon that point from the moment his proposal for Gertrude Chattesworth had taken wind.
'Jemmy, said he to the boy who presented himself, 'run down to Tom Garret, at the Millbridge, and tell him Captain Cluffe's dhrownded over the weir, and to take the boat-hook and rope he's past the bridge by this time ay is he at the King's House an' if he brings home the corpse alive or dead, before an hour, Captain Puddock here will give him twenty guineas reward. So away went the boy.
Poor little Puddock actually clasped his hands, looked up, and poured forth a hearty, almost hysterical, thanksgiving; for he had charged Cluffe's death altogether upon his own soul, and his relief was beyond expression.
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