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It was my love for her, my wish to deserve her, that made me iron against my friend's example. I was fool enough to speak to him of Mary to present him to her this ended in her seduction." I struck him to the earth and then we fought. I was satisfied by a ball through my side! but he," added Gawtrey, rubbing his hands, and with a vindictive chuckle, "He was a cripple for life!
"Very seldom, now; I have sown all my wild oats, and even the ace of spades can scarcely dig them out again." "Ha! ha! vara gude." "I will look on;" and Lord Lilburne drew his chair to the table, exactly opposite to Mr. Gawtrey. The old gentleman turned to Philip. "An extraordinary man, Lord Lilburne; you have heard of him, of course?"
"Well," said Love, or Gawtrey, with a singular mixture of irony and compassion in his voice; "and it was hunger, then, that terrified you at last even more than I?" "Perhaps hunger or perhaps rather the reasoning that comes from hunger.
"My soul supports my body, and I am armed," said Morton, laying hand on his cutlass. "But you dare not harm me, nor I you; bloodstained as you are, you gave me shelter and bread; but accuse me not that I will save my soul while it is yet time! Shall my mother have blessed me in vain upon her death-bed?" Gawtrey drew back, and Morton, by a sudden impulse, grasped his hand.
The only reason why we do not feel sure that the rumour was false is this, Simon Gawtrey had been so hard on the early follies of his son! Certainly, at all events, the woman had exercised great influence over the miser before the arrival of Fanny, and she had done much to steel his selfishness against the ill- fated William.
"I have neither son nor grandson; as for my wife, Monsieur le Capitaine, you offer a bribe instead of a threat when you talk of her death." "Sacre! but you will be an addition to our circle, mon brave!" said Gawtrey, laughing; while again the grim circle shouted applause. "But I suppose you care for your own life."
He was too young, too inexperienced, too much borne away by the passion of the narrator, to see that Gawtrey had less cause to blame Fate than himself.
"Are you poor?" "As a church mouse! The only thing belonging to a church, since the Bourbons came back, that is poor!" At this sally, the coiners, who had gathered round the table, uttered the shout with which, in all circumstances, Frenchmen receive a bon mot. "Humph!" said Gawtrey. "Who responds with his own life for your fidelity?" "I," said Birnie. "Administer the oath to him."
If you do not conform to society, what has society done for me? No! I will not forsake you in a reverse. Fortune has given you a fall. What, then, courage, and at her again!" These last words were said so heartily and cheerfully as Morton sprang from the bed, that they inspirited Gawtrey, who had really desponded of his lot.
Gawtrey at last finished a breakfast that would have astonished the whole Corporation of London; and then taking out a large old watch, with an enamelled back doubtless more German than its master he said, as he lifted up his carpet-bag, "I must be off tempos fugit, and I must arrive just in time to nick the vessels. Shall get to Ostend, or Rotterdam, safe and snug; thence to Paris.
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