dawkes's

Updated: May 12, 2025

I might have pleaded that I was under age when he got my signature, but it would have been scarcely honourable to do so." "And you never profited by the transaction?" "Never by a sixpence. It was done for Dawkes's accommodation, not mine. He ought to have paid it, you say? My dear, he is a man of straw, and never had fifteen hundred pounds of his own in his life."

Mrs. Henry Wood - Elster's Folly : A Novel

I said Hart let me go on, and never came on himself; if that's a story, I'll swallow Dawkes's skiff and the sculls too." "You said he was in his room. You know you did." "I said I supposed so. It's usual for a man to go there, I believe, to get ready for dinner," added young Carteret, always ripe for a wordy war, in his antipathy to the countess-dowager.

Mrs. Henry Wood - Elster's Folly : A Novel