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Such was his fate here; for at this moment Sir Thomas Gourlay entered the drawing-room, and approaching Lady Emily, said, "I have to apologize to you, Lady Emily, inasmuch as it is I who am to blame for Miss Gourlay's not having seen you sooner.
Gourlay's banishment, in 1819, down to the actual outbreak of rebellion, is largely made up of a succession of abuses on the part of the Executive, and of more or less passive endurance on the part of the great body of the people. As has been intimated, the Gourlay prosecutions and their attendant circumstances aroused much popular indignation, and led to the formation of an organized Opposition.
Corbet, in the meantime, had gone to Sir Thomas Gourlay's with his reverence's message, and in a few minutes afterwards the prisoner, strongly guarded, was conducted to the police office. Sir Spigot Sputter and Mr. Coke An Unfortunate Translator Decision in "a Law Case."
"Ay, man, you've been taking a bit walk, I hear." John made no reply, but played with the poker. It was so huge, owing to Gourlay's whim, that when it slid through his fingers it came down on the muffled hearthstone with a thud like a pavior's hammer. "I'm told you saw the Deacon on your rounds? Did he compliment you on your return?"
"Pat, I assure you, that my journey to Dublin had nothing whatsoever to do with Miss Gourlay's. The whole matter was accidental. I know nothing about her; and if any unfortunate reports have gone abroad they are unfounded, and do equal injustice to that lady and to me."
Gourlay's foes hit on another and more effectual method of accomplishing his destruction.
Gourlay's voice was heard crying on her God. John stood there, suddenly weak in his limbs, and stared, as if petrified, at the red poker in his hand. A little wisp of grizzled hair stuck to the square of it, severed, as by scissors, between the sharp edge and the bone.
All next day Gibson's masons waited for their building material in Wilson's holm. But none came. And all day seven of Gourlay's horses champed idly in their stalls. Barbie had a weekly market now, and, as it happened, that was the day it fell on.
"No, sir," she replied; "about six months." "Do you never keep male waiters in this establishment," he inquired. "Oh, yes, sir; Paudeen Gair and I generally act week about. This is my week, sir, an' he's at the plough." "And where have you been at service before you came here, my good girl?" "In Sir Thomas Gourlay's, sir." The stranger could not prevent himself from starting.
It was not to think, sir, I brought you here, but to do your duty as footman. Fetch Miss Gourlay's maid, sir, immediately. Say I desire to speak with her." "She is not within, sir," replied the man trembling. "Then where is she, sir? Why is she absent from her charge?" "I cannot tell, sir. We thought, sir " "Thinking again, you scoundrel! speak out, however."
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