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He should have been able to get rid of a poor weak female like Patience Crabstick. Why had he not sent her to New York, or or or anywhere? If Lizzie were to hear that Lord George had taken Patience out to sea in a yacht, somewhere among the bright islands of which she thought so much, and dropped the girl overboard, tied up in a bag, she would regard it as a proper Corsair arrangement.
Whether he is smoking his black and consolatory pipe in the gallery of the inn, or losing his way while he meditates a passage of Greek, or groaning over the fatuities of the man- of-fashion in Leonora's story, or brandishing his famous crabstick in defence of Fanny, he is always the same delightful mixture of benevolence and simplicity, of pedantry and credulity and ignorance of the world.
I don't know that they ever do. What is a broken promise?" "It's a story," said Lizzie, in innocent amazement. "And what was it you told when you were upon your oath at Carlisle; and again when the magistrate came here?" "Oh, Lord George; how unkind you are to me!" "Patience Crabstick will tell it all, without any help from me. Don't you see that the whole thing must be known?
Nevertheless it was often the case with her, that she was anxious to get rid of her girl's attendance. It had been so on this morning, and before dinner, and was so now again. She was secret in her movements, and always had some recess in her boxes and bags and dressing apparatuses to which she did not choose that Miss Patience Crabstick should have access.
Were he to come to her and confess the deed, she would almost like him the better for it, admiring his skill and enterprise. But how very clever he must have been, and how brave! He had known, no doubt, that the three ladies were all going to the theatre; but in how short a time had he got rid of the other women and availed himself of the services of Patience Crabstick!
He had got into the place over the area gate, had opened the front door from within, and then the robbery had been discovered. It was afterwards found that the servants had all gone out to what they called a tea-party, at a public-house in the neighbourhood, and that by previous agreement Patience Crabstick had remained in charge.
The fellow looked sheepish, and turning away proceeded to take liberties with other people less dangerous to meddle with than old crabstick. He, however, soon desisted, and sat down evidently disconcerted. "Were you ever worse treated in South Wales by the people there than you have been here by your own countrymen?" said I to the old fellow.
"The woman Crabstick," said the major, "has confessed, and will state on her oath that she saw the necklace in your hands in Hertford Street, and that she saw it placed in the desk. She then gave information of this to Benjamin, as she had before given information as to your journey up from Scotland, and she was introduced to the two men whom she let into the house.
MILLER. Shall I break every bone in your body, you millclack? Paternal advice goes a great way with the daughter, and I hope you know me, Mr. Miller? MILLER. Plague take you! 'Tis the girl must know you. What an old crabstick like me can see in you is just the very last thing that a dainty young girl wants.
Lizzie, however, took one careful look at the iron box before the girl was sent away. Crabstick, on this occasion, had not far to go to seek her own couch. Alongside of Lizzie's larger chamber there was a small room, a dressing-room with a bed in it, which, for this night, was devoted to Crabstick's accommodation.
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