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"Agnes would not know, Madam, for she had unfortunately burnt her hand in trying the wick of the new lamp from town " Trimmle, as Mary was aware, had always been opposed to the new lamp "and so Mrs. Dockett sent the kitchen-maid instead." Mary looked again at the clock. "It's after two! Go and ask the kitchen-maid if Mr. Boyne left any word."
Spong to go to his office and make an end of my patent; and in the mean time Mr. Beale to be preparing my dockett, which being done, I did give him two pieces, after which it was strange how civil and tractable he was to me. Met with Mr. Spong, who still would be giving me council of getting my patent out, for fear of another change and my Lord Montagu's fall.
"I have come to ask you to get your thinking-cap on," Lois replied. "My thinking-cap! Why, bless your heart, it's always on, day and night." "That's good, Captain. But first I wish to ask you a few questions." "Drive ahead, then, I'm ready." "You have often sailed to Liverpool, have you not?" "Sure. Know the place well." "You knew also of the Dockett Concern there, didn't you?
Dockett," said Hardy, now becoming excited; "you must remember it. Don't you recollect that I came in here yesterday, while you were engaged with a couple of gentlemen, and took you aside for a moment? It was then that I gave you the money." Mr. Dockett raised his eyes to the ceiling, and mused for some time, as if trying to recall the circumstance to which allusion was made.
"Agnes would not know, Madam, for she had unfortunately burnt her hand in trying the wick of the new lamp from town " Trimmle, as Mary was aware, had always been opposed to the new lamp "and so Mrs. Dockett sent the kitchen-maid instead." Mary looked again at the clock. "It's after two! Go and ask the kitchen-maid if Mr. Boyne left any word."
Beale to be preparing my dockett, which being done, I did give him two pieces, after which it was strange how civil and tractable he was to me. From thence I went to the Navy office, where we despatched much business, and resolved of the houses for the Officers and Commissioners, which I was glad of, and I got leave to have a door made me into the leads.
But the latter was prepared for him, and, before the excited client had approached three paces, there was heard a sharp click; and at the same moment, the six dark barrels of a "revolver" became visible. While Mr. Dockett thus coolly held his assailant at bay, he addressed him in this wise: "Mr.
I firmly believe that this Sydney Bramshaw is the man, but how are we to prove it without bringing people all the way from England? I thought there was a man in the city who could identify him, as he had done business with the Dockett Concern, as it is commonly called in England. My lawyer and I hunted him up this afternoon, but he told us that he never knew before that Simon Dockett had a nephew.
"And you should see old Dockett himself, who owns it all, so I understand." "What about him?" David asked in a voice scarcely above a whisper. For once he had forgotten his beloved falls. "Ho, ho, I wish you could see him," and the captain leaned back and laughed as he had not laughed for months. "He certainly is a queer one." "In what way?" David questioned. "Well, it is hard to explain.
To divide this among my creditors, gives them but a small sum apiece, while it strips me of every thing. Is there no way, Mr. Dockett, by which I can retain this money, and yet not take a false oath? You gentlemen of the bar can usually find some loop-hole in the law out of which to help your clients.
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