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He did not do it, and it might have been fancy. Only think, Mr Palliser, what one word of his might do! If he says a word, he never goes back from it." Then, having said so much, Mr Fothergill went his way. Mr Palliser understood the meaning of all this very well.
And he had no overmastering passion for excuse: what did he care for little Lucy? He was doing wrong, and he was doing it because it was wrong. He was in a fiercely antagonistic mood, and, as he could not fight Fothergill and Carroll, he fought with his own sense of truth and honor, for want of a better foe.
"But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is." "Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir." "He's supposed to be one of the best men in London." "I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir." I hesitated a bit. I had a feeling that I was passing into this chappie's clutches, and that if I gave in now I should become just like poor old Aubrey Fothergill, unable to call my soul my own.
All this did not alter the settled conviction on men's minds; but it had its effect, and tended to increase the mystery in which the duke's doings were enveloped. But to his own familiars, to the gentry immediately around him, Mr. Fothergill merely winked his eye. They knew what was what, and so did he. The duke had never been bit yet in such matters, and Mr.
Sowerby never took up the gauntlet. "We have heard," said Mr. Fothergill, in that great speech which he made at the Omnium Arms at Silverbridge "we have heard much during this election of the Duke of Omnium, and of the injuries which he is supposed to have inflicted on one of the candidates. The duke's name is very frequent in the mouths of the gentlemen and of the lady who support Mr.
The rose that he had gathered for her was fastened in her dress, and the pink bud that she had given him lay in its first freshness on the turf in the ruins. Some of the party waited in the garden. Fothergill stood in the shadow of the porch, silent and a little apart. Archie Carroll came up the path, but no one spoke to him, and he went straight to his cousin.
Yes," she added, "perhaps I have misunderstood. Yes, send at once for Percival." "I'll go," said Harry, hurrying down the passage. "The message shall be sent off at once. I'll take it to Fordborough." "Must you go yourself?" Mrs. Middleton raised her voice a little as he moved away. "No: let me go," said Captain Fothergill, turning the farther corner: "I am going to Fordborough. What is it?
Faulks," he said, and with an air of the greatest importance the hard-worked, indispensable official tore open the cover. It contained a few hurried lines from Sir Humphrey Fothergill to the following effect: "A telegram has just been received from Lord Raglan. It contains painful news for you; but I thought it best to let you have it at once." He opened the telegram with trembling hands and read
The reading and the writing, and the arithmetic in such matters, are done by underlings not by such big men as Mr. Fothergill. His business was to tell Sowerby that he was to go. All those records there were of very little use. The duke had the power; Sowerby knew that the duke had the power; and Fothergill's business was to explain that the duke meant to exercise his power.
My amazement was increased when Alice asked me to secure a dozen extra papers for her, as she wished to send marked copies to certain fashionable society acquaintances and to several other relatives in Maine! I can picture the rural astonishment with which Cousin Jabez Fothergill of Biddeford Pool and the Strattons of North Moosehead will read of our good fortune.
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