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After being admitted an advocate, Scott undertook many excursions to various parts of Scotland, gaining that intimate knowledge of the country, and its people and traditions, which appears in his poems and novels. Thus, he visited Northumberland, and made a close inspection of the battle-field of Flodden, and on another journey studied the Saxon cathedral of Hexam.
'When I proposed to come with Mr and Mrs Milvey, said Bella, 'Mrs Boffin urged me to do so, in order that I might give her my small report it's not worth anything, Mr Rokesmith, except for it's being a woman's which indeed with you may be a fresh reason for it's being worth nothing of Lizzie Hexam. 'Mr Boffin, said the Secretary, 'directed me to come for the same purpose.
'Oh! said Miss Peecher, pondering on it; but smoothly added, in a confirmatory tone, 'At an outfitter's in the City. Ye-es? 'And Charley Mary Anne was proceeding, when Miss Peecher stared. 'I mean Hexam, Miss Peecher. 'I should think you did, Mary Anne. I am glad to hear you do. And Hexam
Lizzie Hexam went too; they belonged together; and T'other Governor would insist on following after them, and being comfortably dead also, though Society was behind him, and the Veneerings and the Podsnaps looking on. Mrs. Ingleside did not provide any Podsnaps or Veneerings; she said they would be there. Now Eugene Wrayburn was Doctor John Hautayne; for this was only our fourth evening.
It is better to be Lizzie Hexam and not know how to read and write than to be Charlie Hexam and not know how to appreciate Lizzie Hexam. It is not only necessary that the democracy should be taught; it is also necessary that the democracy should be taught democracy.
'Meaning Gaffer, Captain? 'Of whom else are we speaking? returned the other, with a movement of his foot, as if Rogue Riderhood were beginning to sneak before him in the body as well as the spirit, and he spurned him off. 'I have heard of a daughter, and a son. I ask for information; I ask YOUR daughter; I prefer to speak to her. What children did Hexam leave?
Lizzie Hexam, too, had avoided the noise, and the Saturday movement of people in the straggling street, and chose to walk alone by the water until her tears should be dry, and she could so compose herself as to escape remark upon her looking ill or unhappy on going home.
'This time, at least, I will leave nothing unsaid, he went on, folding his hands before him, clearly to prevent his being betrayed into any impetuous gesture; 'this last time at least I will not be tortured with after-thoughts of a lost opportunity. Mr Eugene Wrayburn. 'Was it of him you spoke in your ungovernable rage and violence? Lizzie Hexam demanded with spirit.
A parlour door within a small entry stood open, and disclosed a child a dwarf a girl a something sitting on a little low old-fashioned arm-chair, which had a kind of little working bench before it. 'I can't get up, said the child, 'because my back's bad, and my legs are queer. But I'm the person of the house. 'Who else is at home? asked Charley Hexam, staring.
And now I tell you, once and away, Lawyer Lightwood, that Jesse Hexam, commonly called Gaffer, his hand and no other, done the deed, on his own confession to me. And I give him up to you, and I want him took. This night!
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