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'Your life has been an example of patience and fortitude, except in this one particular which has often given me great pain. 'Associate you with him, sir! she cried. 'Indeed, said Mr Haredale, 'I think you do. I almost believe that because your husband was bound by so many ties to our relation, and died in his service and defence, you have come in some sort to connect us with his murder.
'Haredale, said this gentleman, without the least appearance of embarrassment or reserve, 'I am very glad to see you. 'Let us dispense with compliments. They are misplaced between us, returned the other, waving his hand, 'and say plainly what we have to say. You have asked me to meet you. I am here. Why do we stand face to face again? 'Still the same frank and sturdy character, I see!
'Our meeting, Haredale, said Mr Chester, tapping his snuff-box, and following with a smile the impatient gesture he had made perhaps unconsciously towards his sword, 'is one of conference and peace, I hope? 'I have come here, returned the other, 'at your desire, holding myself bound to meet you, when and where you would. I have not come to bandy pleasant speeches, or hollow professions.
On that same night events so crowd upon each other in convulsed and distracted times, that more than the stirring incidents of a whole life often become compressed into the compass of four-and-twenty hours on that same night, Mr Haredale, having strongly bound his prisoner, with the assistance of the sexton, and forced him to mount his horse, conducted him to Chigwell; bent upon procuring a conveyance to London from that place, and carrying him at once before a justice.
'Haredale, returned the other, rocking himself to and fro as in assent, and nodding at the fire, 'it's extremely manly, and really very generous in you, to meet me in this unreserved and handsome way. Upon my word, those are exactly my sentiments, only expressed with much more force and power than I could use you know my sluggish nature, and will forgive me, I am sure.
Mr Haredale nodded assent, and drawing his niece's arm through his, and taking one of her hands between his own, passed out straightway; followed by the locksmith, Mrs Varden, and Dolly who would scarcely have presented a sufficient surface for all the hugs and caresses they bestowed upon her though she had been a dozen Dollys. Edward Chester and Joe followed.
'Why, sir, returned John, elevating his eyebrows, and lowering his voice to the tone in which the question had been asked him, 'he's a good guard, you see. 'Don't be too sure of that, said Mr Haredale, looking towards him as he spoke. 'I doubt it. He has an evil eye. 'There's no imagination in his eye, returned Mr Willet, glancing over his shoulder at the organ in question, 'certainly.
It is enough that this is so, and that I cannot no, I can not lie quietly in my bed, without doing what will seem to you incomprehensible. 'Since when, sir, said the locksmith after a pause, 'has this uneasy feeling been upon you? Mr Haredale hesitated for some moments, and then replied: 'Since the night of the storm. In short, since the last nineteenth of March.
You are so very plain yourself, that you will excuse a little freedom in me, I am sure. 'Attend to me again, Sir John but once, cried Mr Haredale; 'in your every look, and word, and gesture, you tell me this was not your act. You talk of degradation and character.
'So resolved am I to hold this course, returned the other, tasting his wine with great deliberation; 'that I have determined not to quarrel with you, and not to be betrayed into a warm expression or a hasty word. 'There again, said Mr Haredale, 'you have me at a great advantage. Your self-command
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