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It was as if he had deemed anything good enough for a scapegrace and beast like him, and thought to pay the whole price in his own person. It would not be with his will if any other person, high or low, contributed to his heavy forfeits. And Gervase Norgate's servants, new as well as old, had a pitiful liking for him, a remorseful regard for his interests, even when these clashed with their own.
Richard so disgusted him that he felt if he did not quit his company soon, he would be quarrelling with him himself. So, congratulating him, in a caustic manner that Richard did not relish, upon the happy termination of the affair, Vallancey took his leave of him and Blake at the cross-roads, pleading business with Lord Gervase, and left them to proceed without him to Bridgwater.
My readers maybe will grumble that it omits to tell what they would first choose to learn: the reason why he had exchanged fame and the world for a Cornish exile. But as yet he only and perhaps my uncle Gervase, who kept the accounts held the key to that secret. "Heus Rogere! fer caballos; Eja, nunc eamus!" Domum. Another fable improved on this by chaining him to a tree.
Gervase held out his long, brown, well-shaped hand, and the savant's small, cool fingers pressed lightly on his wrist. "You are quite well, Monsieur Gervase," he said after a pause, "You have a little sur-excitation of the nerves, certainly, but it is not curable by medicine." He dropped the hand he held, and looked up "Good-night!" "Good-night!" responded Gervase. "Good-night!" added Courtney.
Said my uncle Gervase after a pause, "Then these Corsicans of yours, brother, stand as yet in no real danger, since the Genoese are yet harrying their island with fire and sword." "In no danger at all as regards their liberty," answered my father, poising his knife for a first cut into the saddle of mutton, "though in some danger, I fear me, as regards their queen.
The young widow stayed on I suppose she liked the life and had little to bring her back to England and when the first year of her widowhood was over she married a young soldier, Gervase Taunton. I'm almost sure I remember meeting him about good-looking, perfect dancer, crack polo player.
"I don't know anything about Egyptian mummies, and don't want to know. My matter is with the present, and not with the past." They had reached the hotel by this time, and turned into the gardens side by side. "You understand?" repeated Denzil. "We cannot be friends!" Gervase gave him a profoundly courteous salute, and the two separated.
Bennett," she said, "you will be nothing better than a beggar; now, will you? You mustn't think me cruel, but I can't help speaking the truth. Write books!" Her expression filled up the incomplete sentence; she waggled with indignant emotion. These passages came to Lucian's ears, and indeed the Gervases boasted of "how well poor Agatha had behaved." "Never mind, Gathy," old Gervase had observed.
And clapping his hat well down over his eyes, he began to walk away in a strange condition of excitement, which he evidently had some difficulty in suppressing. Suddenly, however, he turned, came back and tapped Gervase smartly on the chest. "YOU are the man for the Princess," he said impressively.
The world had put its veto on the risk of her marriage with Gervase Norgate, in so far as its excusable element the reformation of Gervase Norgate was concerned; but with commendable elasticity it had allowed itself to be considerably influenced by the advantages which the marriage had obtained and secured for Diana, as well as by her conduct in their possession, and had awarded her the diploma of its esteem.
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