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Dempster, their Scotch tutor, in their grandfather's time; and Harry, especially, had got to be quite accustomed to the practice, and made very light of it. But since Colonel Esmond's death, the cane had been laid aside, and the young gentlemen at Castlewood had been allowed to have their own way.
They all saluted him, and some of them, after their Manx fashion, drew up at the carriage-door, lifted their caps with their tarry hands, and said "Taking joy to see you out again, Dempster. When a man's getting over an attack like that, it's middling clear the Lord's got work for him." Philip answered with smiles and bows and cheerful words, but the kindness oppressed him.
Peck confessed to Brandon that as her own child died suddenly she had picked up another, with the view of imposing on Mr. Hogarth and getting a handsome allowance from him; but when he saw me he preferred keeping me out of her hands, and educated me, but never loved me," said Francis. "I would not believe that woman on her oath," said Mr. Dempster; "and I know her motive.
The very last time I called on her she said, "Have you been to see my poor daughter?" and burst into tears. 'Pride or no pride, said Mrs. Pettifer, 'I shall always stand up for Janet Dempster. She sat up with me night after night when I had that attack of rheumatic fever six years ago. There's great excuses for her.
Dempster and his colleagues were to return from their mission to Elmstoke Rectory; but it was much pleasanter in Mrs. Linnet's parlour than in the bar of the Red Lion.
But, although two months had passed away, and his attentions to me were unremitting, Colonel Dempster had made no proposal, which I ascribed to his awe of me, and his diffidence as to his success. This rather pleased me than otherwise; but my own feelings now made me wish for the affair to be decided, and I gave him every opportunity that modesty and discretion would permit.
Dempster, muttering, took out his latch-key, and, with less difficulty than might have been expected, thrust it into the door. When he opened the door the passage was dark. 'Janet! in the loudest rasping tone, was the next sound that rang through the house. 'Janet! again before a slow step was heard on the stairs, and a distant light began to flicker on the wall of the passage.
Indeed, I doubt if in their innermost privacy they ever addressed each other except as Mr. and Mrs. Dempster. For the first time to see them together, no one could help wondering how the conjunction could have been effected. Dempster was of Scotch descent, but the hereditary high cheek-bone seemed to have got into his nose, which was too heavy a pendant for the low forehead from which it hung.
Phillips of Wiriwilta?" said Mrs. Peck, eagerly. "Yes, I fancy that is the name of the place; at least the children used to talk about it by that name. Mr. Phillips is a sheep-farmer on the Victoria side," said Mr. Dempster. "And you say she is handsome?" said Mrs. Peck. "Perfectly beautiful! but uneducated, and somewhat capricious.
"Don't apologise for her," said Kate. "She's gone and forgotten, and that being so, her son has now a chance of being Deemster." "So he has," shouted Cæsar, "and not second Dempster only, but first Dempster itself in time, and go on with the twister." Kate laughed loudly, and cried, "Why don't you keep it up when your hand's in?
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