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Jackson that he would go to the office as soon as he had had his breakfast, which he ordered to be sent up directly into his own room, and he had no doubt it would all turn out right, but that she had better go home at once. And, as I told her, she might find Mr. Dunster there by the time she got there. There, there is your I papa going out! He has not lost any time over his breakfast!"
Betsey cleared her throat decisively, and smoothed her gown over her knees as if it were an apron; then she turned to take a good look at her new acquaintance as they sat on the rustic bench together. "Who be you, sir, I should like to know?" she asked, in a friendly tone. "My name's Dunster."
Ah, but we managed it cleverly, to cheat even those so near to us. Disaffection at Taunton, signs of insurrection at Dulverton, revolutionary tanner at Dunster! We set it all abroad, right well. And not even you to suspect our work; though we thought at one time that you watched us.
One of her rhymes is well remembered in the neighbourhood: When Watchet is all washed down Williton shall be a seaport town. This is founded on the gradual encroachment of the sea, which is a fact, but it will be some time yet before masts are seen at Williton. At Dunster there is a curious mill which has two wheels, overshot, one in front of the other, and both driven by the same sluice.
He flung himself from his horse, and was about to interrogate the nearest man, when John of Dunster came hurrying towards him from the tents, and threw himself upon him, sobbing with agitation and dismay. "What is it? Speak, John! The Prince!" "Oh, if you had but been there! It will not cease bleeding. O Richard, he looks worse than my father when he came home!" "Let me hear! Where?
The large house with mullioned windows, near the church, now occupied by a Roman Catholic industrial school, was once a court-house belonging to the Clifford family. Down a road running E. from the church is Gurney Street Farm, an old manor-house. Carhampton, a village on the Dunster and Williton road, 2 m. S.E. of Dunster. The church has been restored and in parts rebuilt.
For the first time, Hamel, crouching above, recognised any likeness to Mr. John P. Dunster. "I'll see you in hell first!" Mr. Fentolin's face momentarily darkened. He moved a little nearer to the man upon the bed. "Dunster," he said, "I am in grim earnest. Never mind arguments. Never mind why I am on the other side. They are restless about you in America.
There was surely something familiar about that name. Was it his fevered fancy or was there also something a little sinister? The nurse, who had glided from the room, came back presently with some telegraph forms. Mr. Dunster held out his hand for them and then hesitated. "Can you tell me any date, Doctor, upon which I can rely upon leaving here?"
"Off the rails!" the boy cried, springing to his feet. "Hold on tightly, sir. I'd keep away from the window." The carriage swayed and rocked. Suddenly a telegraph post seemed to come crashing through the window and the polished mahogany panels. The young man escaped it by leaping to one side. It caught Mr. Dunster, who had just risen to his feet, upon the forehead.
And then he looked up, startled for once for strange, untoward sounds were issuing from the lips of Bubbles Dunster. The girl was leaning forward, her elbows on her knees, crouched upon the low chair, her slight, sinuous little figure bathed in red light. She was groaning, rocking herself backwards and forwards convulsively.
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