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The child seemed struck, hung down her head for a moment, as if in thought, and then, jumping from Morton's lap, ran to Gawtrey, put up her pouting lips, and said: "One kiss more!" Gawtrey kissed her, and turned away his head.
Looking towards the casements of the attic in the opposite house, Gawtrey said, mutteringly, "I wonder where Birnie has been, and why he has not returned. I grow suspicious of that man." "Suspicious of what?" asked Morton. "Of his honesty? Would he rob you?" "Rob me! Humph perhaps! but you see I am in Paris, in spite of the hints of the police; he may denounce me."
"Scoundrel!" muttered Gawtrey, clenching his fists; but the peer had sprung into his carriage with a lightness scarcely to be expected from his lameness, and the wheels whirled within an inch of the soi-disant doctor's right pump. Gawtrey walked on for some moments in great excitement; at length he turned to his companion, "Do you guess who Lord Lilburne is?
But man is born to act as well as to contemplate," pursued Gawtrey, changing his tone into the allegro; "and I was soon driven into my old ways, though in a lower line. I went to London, just to give my reputation an airing, and when I returned, pretty flush again, the poor Italian was dead, and Fanny was a widow, with one boy, and enceinte with a second child.
Again the funds began to sink low in the canvas bags, and at length, in despair, Mr. Gawtrey was obliged to quit the field.
As he spoke, Gawtrey shook the young man's hand with cordial vigour, and strode off to his chaise, muttering, "Money well laid out fee money; I shall have him, and, Gad, I like him, poor devil!" "He is a cunning coachman that can turn well in a narrow room." Old Play: from Lamb's Specimens. "Here are two pilgrims, And neither knows one footstep of the way." HEYWOOD's Duchess of Suffolk, Ibid.
Simon Gawtrey the next day. This letter was accompanied by one from a lawyer, informing Simon Gawtrey that Lord Lilburne would pay L200. a year, in quarterly payments, to his order; and that he was requested to add, that when the young lady he had so benevolently reared came of age, or married, an adequate provision would be made for her.
Gawtrey flung the rope across the street to the opposite parapet; after two or three efforts, the grappling-hook caught firm hold the perilous path was made. "On! quick! loiter not!" whispered Gawtrey; "you are active it seems more dangerous than it is cling with both hands-shut your eyes.
He drew aside Gawtrey, and whispered him, as usual, for some moments. Gawtrey nodded his head, and then said aloud "To-morrow we shall talk without reserve before my young friend. To-night he joins us." "To-night! very well," said Birnie, with his cold sneer. He must take the oath; and you, with your life, will be responsible for his honesty?" "Ay! it is the rule."
Gawtrey himself was generally a boon companion; their society, if not select, was merry.
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