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Having uttered these very lugubrious words, and almost succeeded in throwing a wet blanket over the party, he sat down. "Now, you're not going to do anybody else, are you?" said Madden. "Only Twisleton, and Gerard, and Hopgood," answered Bertram; "and Fortescue looks as if he expected it. Perhaps, however, he'll let us off till the day after to-morrow."
Generally speaking, the attempt is fatal. 'Madge, said Mrs Hopgood, 'your dogmatic decision may have been interesting, but it prevented the expression of Mr Palmer's opinion. Madge bent forward and politely inclined her head to the embarrassed Frank. 'I do not know what to say. I have never thought much about such matters. Is not what they call casuistry a science among Roman Catholics?
At ten precisely it was heard to mew and was immediately admitted. Not once in a twelvemonth did that cat prolong its love making after five minutes to ten. Mrs Hopgood went upstairs to her room, Mrs Cork following and closing the door. 'If you please, ma'am, I wish to give you notice to leave this day week. 'What is the matter, Mrs Cork?
It was that lawyer Clapp; and Hopgood had put him on the track of them 'ere papers." "What were the documents in your chest?" "Most of what they had to show came from me: to be sure, Hopgood had got some letters and papers, written to himself of late years under the name of William Stanley; but all they had before the wreck of the Jefferson came from me."
Mr Tubbs was sure Mrs Hopgood must have been French, and said to his daughters, mysteriously, 'you never can tell who Frenchwomen are. 'But, papa, said Miss Tubbs, 'you know Mrs Hopgood's maiden name; we found that out. It was Molyneux.
Who had any authority to say she was to be called Madge Hopgood? She determined at last to pray to God and again ask her mother's help. She did pray earnestly that very night, and had not finished until long after Madge had said her Lord's Prayer. This was always said night and morning, both by Madge and Clara. They had been taught it by their mother.
It was a peculiar name, she had heard it only once, she had not noticed it over the door, and her exhaustion may have had something to do with her loss of memory. She could not therefore write, and Mrs Hopgood determined that she herself would go to Great Oakhurst. She had another reason for her journey. She wished her kind friend there to see that Madge had really a mother who cared for her.
The lesson of the sequence is that each is good in its way, a perfectly hateful doctrine to me. Frank and Madge were, however, in the best of humours, especially Frank, who had taken a glass of wine beyond his customary very temperate allowance. 'But, Miss Hopgood, Mrs Martin had to suit all tastes; we must not be too severe upon her.
She's eighteen, perfectly fearless in a boat, but you can't get her to mount a horse a sore subject with her grandfather, who spends most of his day on a lean, half-bred pony, that carries him like a feather, for all his weight. They put me up here as a favour to Dan Treffry; there's an arrangement of L. s. d. with Mrs. Hopgood in the background.
I say as you, Mrs Hopgood, ought to be ashamed of yourself for bringing of such a person into a house like mine, and you'll please vacate these premises on the day named. She did not wait for an answer, but banged the door after her, and went down to her subterranean den. Mrs Hopgood did not tell her children the true reason for leaving.
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