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He was then proceeding to speak of Lady Harriet Wentworth, of his high esteem for her, and of his confirmed opinion that their connection was innocent in the sight of God, when Goslin, the sheriff, asked him, with all the unfeeling bluntness of a vulgar mind, whether he was ever married to her.
"My dear, I'll tell you," said Statira; "for I don't want you to think I'm set against any person unreasonable and without cause. You see Miss Jaynes is a nateral-born beggar. I don't say it with any ill-will, but it's a fact. She takes to beggin' as naterally as a goslin' takes to a puddle; and when she first come to town she commenced a-beggin', and has kep' it up ever since.
Do you know, Goslin," he added, in a changed voice, "I live nowadays somehow in constant apprehension." "You've never possessed the same self-confidence since you found Mademoiselle Gabrielle with the safe open," he remarked. "No. Murie, or some other man she knows, must have induced her to do that, and take copies of those documents.
How old Billy stormed when Sam started "keeping company" with her! "Nice young goslin' fer you to be a-goin' with!" he scowled when Sam would betake himself towards the red gate every evening after chores were done. "Nice gal fer you to bring home to help yer mother; all she'll do is to play May Queen and have the hull lot of us a-trottin' to wait on her.
"Yes," remarked the Frenchman, "so you've told me before. Have you heard from mademoiselle lately?" "Only twice since she has left here," was the old man's bitter reply, "and that was twice too frequently. I've done with her, Goslin done with her entirely.
"I thought him a clever fellow, but it seems that he's a bungler after all." "But while we keep Krail at arm's length, as we are doing, what have we to fear?" asked Goslin. "Yes, but how long can we keep him at arm's length?" queried Sir Henry. "You know the kind of man one of the most extraordinarily inventive in Europe. No secret is safe from him.
Truth to tell, with Flockart's influence upon him, he was not quite convinced of the sincerity of either Gabrielle or Walter Murie. Therefore, when they entered, and his daughter spoke to him; his greeting was not altogether cordial. "Why, dear dad, how is it you're sitting here all alone? I would have gone for a walk with you had I known." "I'm expecting Goslin," was the old man's snappy reply.
W'en a ole nigger like me is gotter paddle de canoe an' do de fishin' at de same time, an' w'en you bleedzd ter ketch de fish an' dassent turn de paddle loose fer ter bait de hook, den I tell you, Brer John, you er right whar de mink had de goslin'. Mars John and Miss Sally, dey done bin gone down unto Putmon County fer ter see der kinfolks mighty nigh fo' days, an' you better bleeve I done bin had ter scratch 'roun' mighty lively fer ter make de rashuns run out even.
When I saw him last at Glencardine he told me that Monsieur Goslin was not so clever at typing or in grasping his meaning as you are, and he is only awaiting your return." "That may be so," answered the girl in a slow, distinct voice; "but perhaps you'll tell me, Mr. Flockart, the reason you evinced such an unwonted curiosity in my father's affairs?"
It has been put about by a pack of women who are jealous of my wife's good looks and her chic in dress." "Are not Flockart and mademoiselle also good friends?" inquired Goslin. "No. I happen to know that they are not, and that very fact in itself shows me that Gabrielle, in trying to get at the secret of my business, was not aided by Flockart, for it was he who exposed her."
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