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I won't trust her nearer; young Softly's too cunning, and she's too fond of him. 'Any more orders, sir? says I. 'Yes; take some fancy name Simkins, Johnson, Giles, Jones, James, says he, 'what you like bu t Dulcifer; for that scamp Softly will move heaven and earth to trace her. 'What else? says I. 'Nothing, but look sharp, says he; 'and mind one thing, that she sees no visitors, and posts no letters. Before those last words had been out of his wicked lips an hour, we were off.
I had closed the paper again, and was just raising my head from the table over which it had been bent, when my right cheek came in contact with something hard and cold. I started back looked up and confronted Doctor Dulcifer, holding a pistol at my right temple. He cocked the pistol without saying a word. I felt that I was probably standing face to face with death, and I too said not a word.
Thus far, I have only solicited two persons, Doctor and Miss Dulcifer, in that delightful little cottage there." "You don't mean to say you have asked them to come to the ball!" "To be sure I have. And I am sorry to say they can't accept the invitation. Why should they not be asked?" "Because nobody visits them." "And why should nobody visit them?"
This led to the mention of my father, whose reputation had reached the ears of Doctor Dulcifer. As he told me that, his daughter looked up the sun of beauty shone on me again! I touched next on my high connections, and on Lady Malkinshaw; I described myself as temporarily banished from home for humorous caricaturing, and amiable youthful wildness.
I say nothing against Doctor Dulcifer he came here as a stranger, and he goes away again as a stranger but you can't be sure that his purpose in asking you so readily to his house is a harmless one. Making a new acquaintance is always a doubtful speculation; but when a man is not visited by his respectable neighbors " "Because he doesn't open his shutters," I interposed sarcastically.
I was not at all a scrupulous man, as the reader knows by this time; but when I looked at these objects, and thought of Alicia, I could not for the life of me help shuddering. There was not the least doubt about it, even after the little I had seen: the important chemical pursuits to which Doctor Dulcifer was devoting himself, meant, in plain English and in one word Coining.
Put a shovel-hat on Gentleman Jones, and the effect would only have been eccentric; put the same covering on the head of Doctor Dulcifer, and the effect would have been strictly episcopal. "How did you get here?" he repeated, still without showing the least irritation. I told him how I had got in at the second-floor window, without concealing a word of the truth.
In this way, my parents are ending their days contentedly. I can honestly say that I am glad to hear it. Doctor Dulcifer, when I last heard of him, was editing a newspaper in America. Old File, who shared his flight, still shares his fortunes, being publisher of his newspaper.
I felt that I need be under no restraints of honor with a man who was keeping me a prisoner, and who had made an accomplice of me by threatening my life. Accordingly, while resolving to show outwardly an amiable submission to my fate, I determined at the same time to keep secretly on the watch, and to take the very first chance of outwitting Doctor Dulcifer that might happen to present itself.
When I rang the bell at No. 1, did I feel no presentiment of the exquisite surprise in store for me? I felt nothing of the sort. The fact is, my digestion is excellent. Presentiments are more closely connected than is generally supposed with a weak state of stomach. I asked for Miss Dulcifer, and was shown into the sitting-room.
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