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'Yes, sir? he rejoined with a sarcastic smile, finding the secretary stopped. 'You were saying' Gashford meekly shrugged his shoulders, and looking on the ground again, was silent. 'No, but let us really, interposed Sir John at this juncture, 'let us really, for a moment, contemplate the very remarkable character of this meeting.
'Add to the singularity, Sir John, said Mr Haredale, 'that some of you Protestants of promise are at this moment leagued in yonder building, to prevent our having the surpassing and unheard-of privilege of teaching our children to read and write here in this land, where thousands of us enter your service every year, and to preserve the freedom of which, we die in bloody battles abroad, in heaps: and that others of you, to the number of some thousands as I learn, are led on to look on all men of my creed as wolves and beasts of prey, by this man Gashford.
'Oh, really you are very, very hard upon our friend! exclaimed Sir John. 'Let Mr Haredale go on, said Gashford, upon whose unwholesome face the perspiration had broken out during this speech, in blotches of wet; 'I don't mind him, Sir John; it's quite as indifferent to me what he says, as it is to my lord. If he reviles my lord, as you have heard, Sir John, how can I hope to escape?
Now, while Tom Brixton was revolving this knotty question in his mind, and Bully Gashford was revolving questions quite as knotty, and much more complex, and Fred Westly was discussing with Flinders the best plan to be pursued in the event of Tom refusing to fly, there was a party of men assembled under the trees in a mountain gorge, not far distant, who were discussing a plan of operations which, when carried out, bade fair to sweep away, arrest, and overturn other knotty questions and deep-laid plans altogether.
No noise or it's all up wid us!" There was something in Paddy's manner and look that commanded respect and constrained obedience even in Gashford. "Bill," he said, turning to a man who acted as his valet and cook, "rouse the camp. Quietly as you hear. Let no man act however, till my voice is heard. You'll know it when ye hear it!"
"No one, I think, can be more fully convinced of the meanness the sin of my conduct than I am now " "Oh! as to that," returned Bevan, with another of his peculiar smiles, "I didn't exactly mean that. You were tempted, you know, pretty bad. Besides, Bully Gashford is a big rascal, an' richly deserves what he got. No, it wasn't that I meant but it's a bad look-out for you, lad, if they nab you.
A little disconcerted by this reception, Hugh looked from the secretary to Dennis, who had risen and was standing at the table too, observing the stranger by stealth, and seeming to derive the utmost satisfaction from his manners and appearance. Considering himself silently appealed to by this action, Mr Dennis shook his head thrice, as if to say of Gashford, 'No.
'Are we really forty thousand strong, or do we still speak in round numbers when we take the Association at that amount? 'Our total now exceeds that number by a score and three, Gashford replied, casting his eyes upon his papers. 'The funds? 'Not VERY improving; but there is some manna in the wilderness, my lord. Hem! On Friday night the widows' mites dropped in.
'We shall have to draw up in divisions, our numbers being so large; and, I believe I may venture to say, resumed Gashford, affecting not to hear the interruption, 'though I have no direct instructions to that effect that Lord George has thought of you as an excellent leader for one of these parties. I have no doubt you would be an admirable one. 'Try me, said the fellow, with an ugly wink.
'Oh! you ARE here then? said the Secretary. 'Dear me! 'Why, where should we be, Muster Gashford! Dennis rejoined as he rose into a sitting posture. 'Oh nowhere, nowhere, he returned with excessive mildness. 'The streets are filled with blue cockades. I rather thought you might have been among them. I am glad you are not. 'You have orders for us, master, then? said Hugh. 'Oh dear, no.
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