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I begged and implored Miss Walters to let me leave by the early one, and wait at the junction, but she would not hear of it, so I've got to stop here kicking my heels, and watch you others whisked away. Isn't it a grisly shame?" Gowan's round rosy face was drawn into a decided pout, and her blue eyes were full of self-pity.

It would quite spoil it if you were just reeling off speeches by heart, with one ear open to the prompter. I know you! I shall never forget Lilias when we did 'The Vanity Bag. She said her bits as if she were repeating a lesson, and Bertha " "Are we to say anything we like, then?" interrupted Carmel, for Gowan's reminiscences were becoming rather too personal for purposes of harmony.

Once more, while she knelt there, Lady Gowan's lips moved as her eyes closed, and she bent down her head above her son's shoulder. At last she raised it, and said, firmly: "We must be brave over this terrible misfortune, Frank dear. But tell me; do I know the worst?" "Yes, yes, mother; I meant to keep a great deal back, and I can't look in your eyes, and say anything that is not perfectly true."

Two or three times in one day he had heard accidental comments upon Gowan's attentions to her, and on his return to his lodgings at night he had appealed to her in a passionate epistle. He was not going to doubt her again, he said, and he was struggling to face the matter coolly, but he wanted to see her.

An' he says in the letter," continued the old woman, warming up with the interest attaching to her subject, "as Donal' wes the only kin left him, an' he'd find himsel' nane the worse o' that. Alexander Gowan, they callit him." "And so this cousin is dead, I suppose?" "Na, na, sir," replied Bell. "Gowan's on his wye back frae Ameriky, ye ken, an' Christian's had word to expect him.

"Come on." "Mind, I never see you go by," said the man. "Of course you didn't," said Andrew; "and I can't see you; it's too dark yet." They set off running, and the next minute were at the gate opening on to the Park, where another sentry challenged them. "I'm Mr Frank Gowan, Captain Sir Robert Gowan's son, and this is Mr Andrew Forbes, Prince's page."

'Pardon me, returned Clennam, 'but I am not in Mr Henry Gowan's confidence. I am far from being so well informed as you suppose me to be. Your mistake makes my position a very delicate one. No word on this topic has ever passed between Mr Henry Gowan and myself.

When tidings did arrive, they were such as to fill us with consternation. The will in the lawyer's possession was dated more than two years before, after Gowan's return to America from Ardmuirland.

Minnie was too much disturbed to say anything connected in reply; Little Dorrit was already occupied in soothing her; Fanny, who had cried out twice or thrice, held Gowan's arm for protection; Lion, deeply ashamed of having caused them this alarm, came trailing himself along the ground to the feet of his mistress. 'You furious brute, said Gowan, striking him with his foot again.

I always showed him, for one, that I could have dispensed with his company with the greatest pleasure. He then commits that gross outrage upon our feelings, which he never could or would have committed but for the delight he took in exposing us; and then we are to be demeaned for the service of his friends! Why, I don't wonder at this Mr Gowan's conduct towards you.