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I should want to know precisely what he meant when he said to Dan'l Ewbank as how he'd known a man called Marston Greyle in America. 'Taint a common name, that, guv'nor." Copplestone made no answer to these observations. His own train of thought was somewhat similar to his host's. And presently he turned to a different track. "You saw no one else about there that afternoon?" he asked.
There was no window down there, and, though I could no longer hear old Ewbank snoring, I had not the slightest reason to anticipate disturbance from that quarter. I did think of locking myself in while I was at work, but, thank goodness, the iron door had no keyhole on the inside.
Even if I am just now lying up, as it were, I'm fully what they term o-fay with matters, and, by all accounts, after Bassett Oliver went up that there path, subsequent to his bit of talk with Ewbank, he was never seen no more 'cepting by me, and possibly by Squire Greyle. Them as lives a good deal alone, like me guv'nor, develops what you may call logical faculties they thinks and thinks deep.
I had mine in my pocket, and I got my chance by retreating from the counter with all visible reluctance. "Ewbank stared at me with open eyes and a five-barred forehead, then down came his fist on the table. "'By God! That was smart! Still, he added, like a man who would not be in the wrong, 'the papers said the other thing, you know!
But I heard nothing not a thing but the mare's bellow and my own heart. I'm sorry, Bunny; but if ever you write my memoirs, you won't have any difficulty in working up that chase. Play those dead gum-trees for all they're worth, and let the bullets fly like hail. I'll turn round in my saddle to see Ewbank coming up hell-to-leather in his white suit, and I'll duly paint it red.
Whatever inertia may be, it is superable or destructible only by the force or motion of matter itself, matter being incapable of rest. "Instead of matter being innately inert," says Mr. Ewbank, "as many think, motion is its natural condition."
I kept him out of his bed another twenty minutes, and I knew every inch of the business premises before I shook hands with Ewbank in my room. "You won't guess what I did with myself for the next hour. I undressed and went to bed. The incessant strain involved in even the most deliberate impersonation is the most wearing thing I know; then how much more so when the impersonation is impromptu!
And I must frankly confess that, had it not been for Mr. Ewbank's great zeal for the cause he has made his own, I should have shirked the task. But there we were, seated on a fairly worn-out charpai, surrounded by men, women and children. Mr. Ewbank opened fire on a man who had put himself forward and who wore not a particularly innocent countenance.
My experience, sir, is that a wise man holds his tongue until he's called upon to use it. Now, in my opinion, it was a very unwise thing of yon there sea-going man, Ewbank, to say that this unfortunate play-actor told him that he'd met our Squire in America very unfortunate!" Copplestone pricked his ears. Had the estate agent come there to tell him that? And if so, why? "Oh!" he said.
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