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And having concluded this delicate financial deal Lord Dawlish turned, the movement bringing him face to face with a tall girl in white.
It was nearly three hours later that Jim Dawlish the miller answered Jeff Ironside's gruff morning greeting with an eager, "Have you heard the news, sir?" Dawlish was of a cheery, expansive disposition, and not much of the village gossip ever escaped him or remained with him. "What news?" demanded Jeff.
Of course, in the car I never talk to Sir Lionel, except a word flung over shoulders now and then, for Mrs. Senter sits by him. She asked to. Did I tell you that before? So the day we left Exeter things were just the same between us; not trustful and silently happy, as at the time of the ring, but rather strained, and vaguely official. I would buy Dawlish as an advertisement for my blue.
He was proud of his conquest, proud of tricking Edward, and very proud of marrying privately without his mother's consent. What immediately followed is known. They passed some months in great happiness at Dawlish; for she had many relations and old acquaintances to cut and he drew several plans for magnificent cottages; and from thence returning to town, procured the forgiveness of Mrs.
"She shall find that we have not done with her yet," he said to himself, as he wrote a line to John Eustace. But John Eustace was out of town, as a matter of course; and on the next day Mr. Camperdown himself went down and joined his wife and family at a little cottage which he had at Dawlish. The necklace, however, interfered much with his holiday. Mr. Gowran Is Very Funny
'I had a wire from him asking me to call. They want me to call. They want me to take up Claudia Winslow's part in the number one company. 'That's good. 'Why? 'Well er what I mean well, isn't it? What I mean is, leading part, and so forth. 'In a touring company? 'Yes, I see what you mean, said Lord Dawlish, who didn't at all.
They might even now be in the hands of some Benjamin or of some Harter, and it might soon be beyond the power either of lawyers or of policemen to trace them. He therefore went up from Dawlish and persuaded John Eustace to come from Yorkshire. It was a great nuisance, and Eustace freely anathematised the necklace.
She is certain to go to London, and equally certain to fail. I can tempt her with some of my stories. I will manage to get her address. Yes, clever as you think yourself, Florence, you will be in my power, and before many weeks are over." Florence and Kitty left Dawlish the next day and went to Southampton.
'I'll tell you what, said Lord Dawlish, with the air of one who, having pondered, has been rewarded with a great idea: 'the fact is, I really don't want to buy anything. You seem by bad luck to be stocked up with just the sort of things I wouldn't be seen dead in a ditch with. I can't stand rubber rings, never could. I'm not really keen on buttonhooks.
That restoration to sanity lasted till about a month ago, when he broke loose once more and paid his final visit here to will you the contents of his stocking. This morning I see he's dead after a short illness, so you collect. Congratulations! Lord Dawlish had listened to this speech in perfect silence. He now rose and began to pace the room. He looked warm and uncomfortable.
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