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It is, probably, for this very purpose of discovering whether the coast be clear or not, that Jasper climbs the tower. He watches Durdles for the purpose of finding how the drug which he has administered works, with a view to future operations on Edwin.
In her later account to me of this quarrel she said, "You know, Durdles, I don't believe I ever loved Vera more than I did just then. In spite of her gravity she looked so helpless and as though she wanted loving so terribly. I could just have flung my arms round her and hugged her to death at the very moment that I was screaming at her. Why are we like that?"
'By the bye, it comes into Jasper's mind to say, as he idly examines the keys, 'I have been going to ask you, many a day, and have always forgotten. You know they sometimes call you Stony Durdles, don't you? 'Cloisterham knows me as Durdles, Mr. Jasper. 'I am aware of that, of course. But the boys sometimes 'O! if you mind them young imps of boys Durdles gruffly interrupts.
From succeeding unconsciousness he passes into a dream of slow uneasiness from cold; and painfully awakes to a perception of the lanes of light really changed, much as he had dreamed and Jasper walking among them, beating his hands and feet. 'Holloa! Durdles cries out, unmeaningly alarmed. 'Awake at last? says Jasper, coming up to him.
As Durdles and Jasper come near, they are addressed by an inscribed paper lantern over the door, setting forth the purport of the house.
Sapsea, with an Author's anxiety to rush into publication, replies that it cannot be out of hand too soon. 'You had better let me have the key then, says Durdles. 'Why, man, it is not to be put inside the monument! 'Durdles knows where it's to be put, Mr. Sapsea; no man better. Ask 'ere a man in Cloisterham whether Durdles knows his work. Mr.
One night, John Jasper, choir-master in Cloisterham Cathedral, on his way home through the Close, is brought to a standstill by the spectacle of Stony Durdles, dinner-bundle and all, leaning against the iron railing of the burial-ground, while a hideous small boy in rags flings stones at him, in the moonlight.
Durdles taps, that wall represented by that hammer, and says, after good sounding: "Something betwixt us!" Sure enough, some rubbish has been left in that same six-foot space by Durdles's men! Jasper opines that such accuracy 'is a gift. 'I wouldn't have it at a gift, returns Durdles, by no means receiving the observation in good part. 'I worked it out for myself.
Sapsea having risen and stationed himself with his back to the fire, for the purpose of observing the effect of these lines on the countenance of a man of taste, consequently has his face towards the door, when his serving-maid, again appearing, announces, 'Durdles is come, sir! He promptly draws forth and fills the third wineglass, as being now claimed, and replies, 'Show Durdles in.
The key proffered him by the bereaved widower being a large one, he slips his two-foot rule into a side-pocket of his flannel trousers made for it, and deliberately opens his flannel coat, and opens the mouth of a large breast-pocket within it before taking the key to place it in that repository. 'Why, Durdles! exclaims Jasper, looking on amused, 'you are undermined with pockets!
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