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Updated: May 11, 2025
Alas! when crime has become a custom, it is like gaming or drinking the excitement is wanting; and had Luke Darvil been suddenly made inheritor of the wealth of a Rothschild, he would either still have been a villain in one way or the other; or ennui would have awakened conscience, and he would have died of the change of habit.
And this was the woman and this the child who had excited so much benevolent curiosity in the breasts of the worthy clergyman and the three old maids of C .* Alarmed at Sarah's account of the scrutiny of the parson, and at his own rencontre with that hawk-eyed pastor, Templeton lost no time in changing the abode of the nurse; and to her new residence had the banker bent his way, with rod and angle, on that evening which witnessed his adventure with Luke Darvil.
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 last Darvil was dead; he breathed more freely, he revolved more seriously his projects; and at this time, Sarah, wooed by her first lover, wished to marry again; his secret would pass from her breast to her second husband's, and thence how far would it travel?
There lay Luke Darvil on the grass still living, but a horrible and ghastly spectacle. One ball had pierced his breast, another had shot away his jaw. His eyes rolled fearfully, and he tore up the grass with his hands. The officers looked coldly on. "He was a clever fellow!" said one. "And has given us much trouble," said the other; "let us see to Will."
What sort of looking person was this Alice Darvil, pretty, of course?" "I never saw her; and none but the persons employed in the premises knew her by sight; they described her as remarkably lovely." "Fair and slight, with blue eyes, I suppose? those are the orthodox requisites of a heroine." "Upon my word I forget; indeed I should never have remembered as much as I do, if the celebrity of Mr.
But I tell you that you shall quit this house in half an hour that you shall never enter it again but at your peril; and if you do within ten minutes from that time you shall be in the town gaol. It is no longer a contest between you and your defenceless daughter; it is a contest between " "A tramper in fustian, and a gemman as drives a coach," interrupted Darvil, laughing bitterly, yet heartily.
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!"
Up came the maid-servant, a formal old woman, most respectable. "Hark ye, old girl!" said Darvil; "bring up the best you have to eat not particular let there be plenty. And I say a bottle of brandy. Come, don't stand there staring like a stuck pig. Budge! Hell and furies! don't you hear me?"
"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!"
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