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I wish he had flogged you all! she shrieked, and, turning stiffly, she went mumbling and cursing down the stairs, the lace lappets of her head trembling, and her gold-headed cane now thumping the floor, now waving uncertainly in the air. A quarter of an hour earlier, in the apartments for which Mr. Fishwick was bound when her ladyship intercepted him, two men stood talking at a window.
By God, this is too much! And seizing the bell-rope he was about to overwhelm the man of law with a torrent of abuse, before he had him put out, when the absurdity of the appeal and perhaps a happy touch in Peter's last answer struck him; he held his hand, and hesitated. Then, 'What is your name, sir? he said sternly. 'Peter Fishwick, the attorney answered humbly.
So if you want water you've got to get it. 'I am better now, Mr. Fishwick answered. But the sweat that stood on his brow went far to belie his words. 'I yes, I think I'll take an extract. Sixty-one, was he? 'Eighty-one, eighty-one, it says. There's pen and ink, but you'll please to give me five shillings before you write. Thank you kindly. Lord save us, but that is not the one.
'I am here to represent her, said Mr. Fishwick. 'Represent her! Represent a college laundress! Pooh! I never heard of such a thing. 'But, sir, I am her legal adviser, and 'Legal adviser! Mr. Thomasson retorted, turning purple he was really puzzled. 'A bedmaker with a legal adviser! It's the height of impudence!
I am sure I have not slept a wink these three nights that I have not dreamt of Bessy Canning and that horrid old Squires; which, she did it without a doubt. Don't go to say you've bad news this morning. Certain it was that Mr. Fishwick looked woefully depressed.
Meanwhile the arrival of so fine a gentleman, travelling in a post-chaise and four, drew a crowd about the inn. To give the idlers time to disperse, as well as to remove the stains of the road, he entered the house, and, having bespoken dinner and the best rooms, inquired the way to Mr. Fishwick the attorney's.
'Dissimulare etiam sperasti, perfide tantum Posse nefas, tacitusque meam subducere terram? he muttered in low yet sonorous tones. Mr. Fishwick stared. 'I beg your lordship's pardon, he said. 'I do not quite understand. 'There is no need. And that is the whole truth, sir, is it? 'Yes, my lord, it is. 'Very good.
And doubtless by an error the message which was intended for me was delivered to him. 'Ah! said Dr. Addington gruffly. 'I understand. Alas! poor Mr. Fishwick understood too; and his face, as the truth dawned on him, was one of the most comical sights ever seen.
At the appointed hour, however, there came a knock on the tutor's door, and that gentleman, who had sent his servant out of the way, found Mr. Fishwick on the landing.
Fishwick, carried away by the first sight of Sir George, and by the rage of an honest man who saw a helpless woman ruined, had been violent enough; Soane's possession of the fan not then known to him was calculated to corroborate his suspicions. The Justice in appealing to him felt sure of support; and was much astonished when Mr.
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