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They returned them to me as a gift. I accepted the gift as a trust. On the proceeds, as you see, we manage to live comfortably, and I am now conducting a fairly successful business in the old line on a small scale." Mr Hazlit smiled sadly as he uttered the last words. "And the debts, papa, which you told me once were so heavy, do you mean to pay them all?" asked Aileen, anxiously.
"I couldn't help it, Joe," replied Edgar; "they would come, and I had no time to shave on board. But now, tell me about this wreck." When Edgar heard that the vessel belonged to Mr Hazlit his first impulse was to have nothing to do with it.
"We succeeded in getting a hawser on shore, by means of which, through God's mercy, nearly all the passengers were saved, including, of course, your friend Miss Hazlit and her father. It is mournful to have to add, however, that before the work was finished the wreck slipped into deep water and sank with all her crew on board.
"I wonder if there are valuables in it," said Edgar. "Shouldn't wonder if there wor," said Rooney. "Eight or nine thousand pounds, more or less," whispered the fiend, quoting words used by Mr Hazlit on a former occasion. "Ah jis' so," muttered Maxwell. "Don't you say a word more, David," said the fiend. "I wont," muttered Maxwell's heart; for the hearts of men are desperately wicked.
Those who have not dwelt near the great deep and beheld its fury when roused can form but a faint conception of the scene that occurred there on the night in which the Seagull went down! Mr Hazlit thought of the place as something like the region of a "bad debt," where a portion of his wealth had been wrecked.
As it was, he evaded the huge club by a hair's-breadth, and immediately gave chase to the maniac for such the poor gentleman had obviously become. But although he kept the fugitive for some time in view, he failed to come up with him owing to a stumble over a root which precipitated him violently on his nose. On recovering his feet Mr Hazlit was out of sight.
In these matters he became also agent and assistant to Mr Hazlit so that the gardening and stable-tending ultimately became a mere sham, and it was found necessary to provide a juvenile assistant, in the person of the green-grocer's eldest boy, to fill these responsible posts.
Still, there are sufficiently numerous instances of the fulfilment of both, to warrant the hope which is usually entertained by men and women whose tide has reached its lowest. Mr Hazlit was naturally of a sanguine temperament. He entertained, we had almost said, majestic views on many points.
"Miss Pritty," he said, sitting down and pointing to a chair, "you have always been very kind to my daughter." "She has always been very kind very kind to me," answered Miss Pritty, with a slight look of surprise. "True there is no doubt whatever about that," returned Mr Hazlit, "but just now I wish to refer to your kindness to her.
From this man, Chok-foo, who is easily imposed on, he learned that the casket belongs to a very rich English merchant, who would give anything to recover it, because it belonged to his wife, who is dead " "A rich English merchant?" interrupted Moses, "we Jews are acquainted pretty well with all the rich English merchants. Do you know his name?" "Yes; Charles Hazlit," answered the Malay. "Indeed!
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