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He laughed again, and they all talked awhile longer on this unexpected event, which, to such a village as Weircombe, was one of startling importance and excitement, and then, as the afternoon was drawing in and Mary did not reappear, Angus Reay took his departure with Twitt, leaving Helmsley sitting alone in his chair by the fire.
"Accidents will happen," he said, sententiously "If a child gets into the way of a motor going at full speed, it is bound to be unfortunate for the child. But Lord Wrotham was a rich man and no doubt he would have paid a handsome sum down in compensation " "Compensation!" And Helmsley suddenly stood up, drawing his frail thin figure erect "Compensation! Money!
And Helmsley presently bent himself to steady walking, and got on well, only pausing to get some tea and bread and butter at a cottage by the roadside, where a placard on the gate intimated that such refreshments were to be had within.
If all the world were as sick as it's silly, there'd be nowt wantin' to 't but a grave an' a shovel!" Helmsley smiled, and taking another pull at the black bottle, declared himself much better and ready to go on. He was certainly refreshed, and the weary aching of his limbs which had made every step of the road painful and difficult to him, was gradually passing off.
'Git to bed, yer hulkin' fools! sez she, 'or ye may change my 'Otel for the Sheriff's. An' they all knuckles down afore 'er as if they was childer gettin' spanked by their mother. Ah, she'd 'a made a grand wife for a man! 'E wouldn't 'ave 'ad no chance to make a pig of hisself if she'd been anywheres round!" "Perhaps she won't take me in!" suggested Helmsley.
And when I asked her how she could reconcile it to her conscience to marry such a hoary-headed rascal " Here Helmsley interrupted him. "Was he a hoary-headed rascal?" "He must have been," replied Angus, warmly "Don't you see he must?" Helmsley smiled.
They ask nothing at any man's hands they take and they keep!" "Like the millionaires!" suggested Bill Bush, with a grin. "Right you are, Bill! like the millionaires! None take more than they do, and none keep their takings closer!" "And very miserable they must surely be sometimes, on both their takings and their keepings," said Helmsley. "No doubt of it!
Reay, he kep' us wide awake an' starin'! An' there's one tex which sticks in my 'ed an' comforts me for myself an' for everybody in trouble as I ever 'eerd on " "And what's that, Mrs. Twitt?" asked Helmsley, turning round in his chair, that he might see her better. "It's this, Mister David," and Mrs. Twitt drew a long breath in preparation before beginning the quotation, "an' it's beautiful!
Sick at heart, and utterly overcome by the sudden and awful tragedy to which he had been an enforced silent witness, David Helmsley had now but one idea, and that was at once to leave the scene of horror which, like a ghastly nightmare, scarred his vision and dizzied his brain.
Her mother came eagerly up to her, anxiety purpling every vein of her mottled countenance, but no word did she utter, till, having put on their cloaks, the two waited together on the steps of the mansion, with flunkeys on either side, for the hired brougham to bowl up in as un-hired a style as was possible at the price of one guinea for the night's outing. "Where is Mr. Helmsley?" then asked Mrs.
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