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'It proves that your ladyship's stratagem, he said, 'was to the point last night. 'Oh, Dunborough will live to thank me for that! she answered. 'Gadzooks, he will! It is first come first served with these madams. This will open his eyes if anything will. 'Still it is to be hoped she will leave before he returns, Mr. Thomasson said, with a slight shiver of anticipation. He knew Mr.
'But only by an unreserved apology on Mr. Dunborough's part. He struck me. I have no more to say. 'I do not offer the apology, Mr. Dunborough rejoined, with a horse-laugh. 'So we may as well go on, Jerry. I did not come here to talk. 'I have brought pistols, his second said, disregarding the sneer. 'But my principal, though the challenged party, is willing to waive the choice of weapons.
He was in the act of turning to carry out his intention, when Lady Dunborough, with great presence of mind, called to a servant who was passing the foot of the stairs. The man came. 'Go and fetch this gentleman the book, she said imperiously, 'with the people's names. Bring it here. I want to see it. The man went, and in a moment returned with it. She signed to him to give it to Mr. Dunborough.
It is possible that they are making for Bristol by cross-roads. There is a bridge over the Avon near Laycock Abbey, somewhere on our right, and a road that way through Pewsey Forest. 'That will be it, cried Mr. Dunborough, slapping his thigh. 'That is their game, depend upon it. Sir George did not answer him, but nodded to the servant. 'Go on with the light, he said.
Dunborough come up and slash the door with his whip, and then, contented with this demonstration, pass on, after shouting through the panels that the tutor need not flatter himself he would catch him by-and-by. Mr. Thomasson devoutly hoped he would not; and, sweating at every pore, sat down to recover himself.
He was a tall, heavy man, with a hard, bullying, sneering face; a Dunborough grown older. 'Hush! my good sir. Hush! Mr. Thomasson cried anxiously, after making more than one futile effort to stop him. Between his respect for his companion, and the deference in which he held a lord, the tutor was in agony. 'My good sir, my dear Lord Almeric, you are in error, he continued strenuously.
If he did not see her still well; there was an end of a foolish imbroglio, which had occupied him too long already. In an hour he could be in his post-chaise, and a mile out of town. As it chanced, the surgeons in attendance on Dunborough had enjoined quiet, and forbidden visitors.
And then, feeling a little recovered, 'Dunborough, he asked, 'what are they doing? 'Hanging you, my dear fellow! the other answered from the window, where he had taken his place within a pace of Soane, but without discovering him. He spoke in the full boisterous tone of one in perfect health and spirits, perfectly satisfied with himself, and perfectly heedless of others.
Nor need he have learned much of them then; for he had only to cross the lobby of the east wing, and was in view of the hall barely three seconds. But, unluckily, Lady Dunborough, cackling shrewishly with a kindred dowager, caught sight of him as he passed; and in a trice her old limbs bore her in pursuit. Mr.
For a very little it would be mean, it would be low, it would be cursed low but for two pence I would speak to her mother and cheat him. She is too good to be ruined by that coarse-tongued boaster! Though I suppose she fancies him. I suppose he is an Adonis to her! Faugh! Tommy, my lord, and Dunborough! What a crew!
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