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At the same moment, a window of the cab shall we call it was let down, and a female voice Rachel Lake's called to the driver to stop. Lake addressed the driver 'You come from Johnson's Hotel don't you at Dollington? 'Yes, Sir. 'Well, I'll pay you half-fare to bring me there. 'All right, Sir. But the 'oss, Sir, must 'av 'is oats fust. 'Feed him here, then.
His head was busy enough at that moment, though it was quite still, and his sly eyes rested on his Prayer-book; for Sparks, the millionaire clothier, who had purchased Beverley, and was a potent voice in the Dollington Bank, and whose politics were doubtful, and relations amphibious, was sitting in the pew nearly opposite, and showed his red, fat face and white whiskers over the oak wainscoting.
Within was what he called his 'notice' to Stanley Lake, and it was thus conceived: 'Private. 'DEAR LAKE I understand you are trying to make all safe for next election in Dollington or the county. Now, understand at once, that I won't permit that.
They leave London at five, and get to Dollington at half-past ten, and Driver never has them in sooner than twenty minutes past eleven! D d humbug! I'd undertake to take a dog-cart over the ground in twenty minutes. 'Is Larkin here? I asked. 'Oh, no run up to town. I'm so glad he's away the clumsiest dog in England nothing clever no invention only a bully the people hate him. Wealdon's my man.
He had stopped at Dollington, as the attorney suspected he would, and he had kept tryst, in the Brandon grounds, with sly Captain Lake, whose relations with him it became now more difficult than ever clearly to comprehend. Wylder was plainly under no physical coercion. He had come and gone unattended. For one reason or other he was, at least, as strongly interested as Lake in maintaining secrecy.
Pummice, of Copal and Pummice, the splendid house-painters at Dollington, arrived with his artists and charwomen to give the Assembly Room its annual touching-up and bedizenment, preparatory to the Hunt Ball. The Gylingden young ladies used to peep in, and from the lobby observe the wenches dry-rubbing and waxing the floor, and the great Mr.
Well, that ship's blew up. But I won't let all go. The cur will begin to try for the county or for Dollington. You must quietly stop that, mind; and if he persists, just you put an advertisement in "Galignani," saying Mr. Smith will take notice, that the other party is desirous to purchase, and becoming very pressing.
He had spoken truth, strangely enough, when he mentioned his gambling debts as an incentive to his marriage with the heiress of Brandon, in that Sunday walk with Rachel in the park; and hardly ten minutes had passed when Melton Hervey, trustiest of aide-de-camps, was on his way to Dollington to make a large lodgment to the captain's credit in the county bank, and to procure a letter of credit for a stupendous sum in favour of Messrs.
The Town Clerk knew the constituency of Dollington at his fingers' ends; and Stanley Lake quietly enjoyed, as certain minds will, the nefarious and shabby metamorphosis which every now and then some familiar and respectable burgess underwent, in the spell of half-a-dozen dry sentences whispered in his ear; and all this minute information is trustworthy and quite without malice.
The major thought he spoke of the goddess, and though he did not well comprehend, said he was 'glad of it. 'Think he'll do then? 'He may very unlikely though. A nasty case, as you can imagine. 'He'll certainly not go, poor fellow, before four o'clock P.M. I dare say eh? The major's soul was at the Dollington station, and was regulating poor Lake's departure by 'Bradshaw's Guide. 'Who knows?
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