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Golightly at the waiter, in "Lend Me Five Shillings," when he brought a crust of bread and cheese and a pickle with which to entertain Mrs. Phobbs; Golightly in the meantime having discovered a purse full of sovereigns in the coat the waiter had handed him by mistake. "Don't tell me what I said, sir. I know what I said, sir!
It was his fellow-curate, the Reverend Golightly, who was still waiting to deliver his message. The canon had been disappointed in one of his preachers for Sunday, and being himself engaged to preside over the annual dinner of a dramatic benevolent fund to be held on the Saturday night, and therefore incapable of extra preparation, he desired that Mr.
'She did dance a good deal, said Linda. Mrs. Woodward was too wise to ask any further questions. As it was a fine night Alaric had declared his intention of walking home from Mrs. Val's party, and he and Charley started together. They soon parted on their roads, but not before Alaric had had time to notice Charley's perverse stupidity as to Miss Golightly.
Joshua Golightly was a little man with a hook nose, small keen eyes, scanty hair, and a voice that was something between a whisper and a whistle. He bowed subserviently, and made meek little speeches. "I do trust you will not be disappointed with our church and service. We do all we can to make them worthy of our people."
If her mother erred by thinking too much of what people said, perhaps Rose erred in exactly the opposite way; at any rate, she managed to call down upon her silly but innocent little head an immense amount of blame from the mothers and elderly ladies. "A glorious moonlight night," said Captain Golightly. "What do you say, Miss Fane-Smith? Shall we take a turn in the garden?
"It is time to resume your studies, young gentlemen," he said, with fiendish politeness. They were his last words on earth. "Down, Tyrant!" screamed Chitterlings. "Sic him I mean, sic semper tyrannis!" said the classical Golightly.
"She ain't worth it, soldier come along," said another female voice, whereupon the first broke into a hurricane of oaths; and a little clergyman going by at the moment it was the Rev. J. Golightly said: "Dear, dear! Are there no policemen about?" and so passed on, with his tall wife tucked under his arm. John Storm pressed through the crowd and came between the two who were quarrelling.
When to the above list of attractions it is added that Clementina Golightly had L20,000 of her own, and a reversionary interest in her mother's jointure, it may be imagined that she did not want for good-winded cavaliers to bear her up behind, and whirl around with her with outstretched hands. 'I am not going to stay a moment, my dear, said Mrs.
Though her life rendered necessary a sort of daily or rather nightly flirtation with various male comers as indeed, for the matter of that, did also the life of Miss Clementina Golightly yet she had in her way been true to her lover. She had been true to him, and Charley did not doubt her, and in a sort of low way respected her; though it was but a dissipated and debauched respect.
Val is led by Undy Scott, and Undy is all on your side. 'But she has got guardians, hasn't she? 'Yes her father's first cousin, old Sam Golightly. He is dying; or dead probably by this time; only Mrs. Val won't have the news brought to her, because of this party. He had a fit of apoplexy yesterday. Then there's her father's brother-in-law, Figgs; he's bedridden.
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