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Every succeeding Sunday, for months, he went to the same chapel, but in vain; in vain, too, he resorted to every public haunt of dissipation and amusement. Alice Darvil he beheld no more! "Tell me, sir, Have you cast up your state, rated your land, And find it able to endure the charge?" /The Noble Gentleman/.
"Look you, Darvil," said the banker, summoning up all his energy and intellect, for his moral power began now to back his physical cowardice, and he spoke calmly, and even bravely, though his heart throbbed aloud against his breast, and you might have knocked him down with a feather "the London runners are even now hot after you." "Ha! you lie!"
She formed her resolution instantly turned up a narrow street, and fled at full speed. Darvil endeavoured in vain to keep pace with her his eyes dizzy, his steps reeling with intoxication. She heard his last curse dying from a distance on the air, and her fear winged her steps: she paused at last, and found herself on the outskirts of the town.
"Daughter or no daughter," said John Walters, "I shall not put my scrag in her power; recollect how she fritted us before, when she run away." Darvil stood thoughtful and perplexed; and his associate approached doggedly with a look of such settled ferocity as it was impossible for even Darvil to contemplate without a shudder.
I can't live upon it." "You will cost less in the House of Correction, Mr. Darvil." "Come, make it a hundred: Alley is cheap at that." "Not a farthing more," said the banker, buttoning up his breeches pockets with a determined air. "Well, out with the shiners." "Do you promise or not?" "I promise." "There are your ten guineas. If in half an hour you are not gone why, then " "Then?"
"At least, it is the best I can get," returned Darvil, carelessly; "and after all, it is not a bad chance day's work. But I'm sure I can't say where the money shall be sent. I don't know a man who would not grab it." Wherever you are staying, any banker can effect this for you. But mind, if ever you overdraw the account stops."
You will not consummate your wrong to Alice Darvil by robbing her of the fruit of a life of penitence and remorse? You will not unveil her shame to her own daughter? Convince yourself, and master yourself while you do so!" "Fear me not," said Maltravers, with a terrible smile; "I will not afflict my conscience with a double curse. As I have sowed, so must I reap. Wait me here!"
Pish! don't be faint hearted; here, take 'Old Tom' take it, I say. What, you won't? Well, here's to your health, and a better taste to you!" And now, as the door once more closed upon Darvil, tears for the first time came to the relief of Alice. It was a woman's weakness that procured for her that woman's luxury.
Darvil, according as I might happen or not to have pistols about me. But to the point. Quit this house without further debate, without noise, without mentioning to any one else your claim upon its owner " "Well, and the return?" "Ten guineas now, and the same sum quarterly, as long as the young lady lives in this town, and you never persecute her by word or letter." "That is forty guineas a year.
The Duke of Wellington would not have frightened Luke Darvil, unless his grace had had the constables for his /aides-de-camp/. The banker, to use a homely phrase, was "taken aback." "Look you here, Mr. What's-your-name!" said Darvil, swallowing a glass of the raw alcohol as if it had been water "look you now you can't humbug me.
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