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"Here's another matter," said Spavin, "which we had better settle at once. A man here named O'Drive Darby O'Drive is to be appointed to the under gaolership he is strongly recommended by Mr. Lucre, as a man that has renounced Popery." "That's enough, Spavin," said Hartley, "that, I suppose, comprises all the virtues necessary for an under gaoler, at all events."
This was Boxtel, who had bribed the headsman to let him have Van Baerle's clothes, believing that he would thus obtain the priceless bulbs. Van Baerle was sent to the prison of Loewenstein, and in February 1673, when he was thinking his tulips lost for ever, he heard Rosa's voice. Gryphus had applied for the gaolership of Loewenstein, and had been appointed.
"I will, my Lord; only, my Lord, just before I go about the Undher Gaolership?" "Your appointment to it is cancelled," replied the other, "for many reasons; you avoided prosecuting that wild priest." "But sure I said, my Lord, that when I'd get into my situation "
Darby was certainly confounded by the unwelcome intelligence respecting the loss of the Gaolership, which was conveyed to him in such an unpleasant manner by Mr. Topertoe. He knew his own powers of wheedling, however, too well, to despair of being able, could he see Lucre, to replace himself as firmly as ever in his good opinion.
The most timid and cowardly animals will, however, sometimes turn upon their captors, and Darby although he felt no disposition to bandy words with the curate, resolved, notwithstanding, to abide by the new creed, until he should be able to ascertain his chance of the gaolership. There was, besides, another motive. He knew Mr.
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