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He said that it was but a question of time, and His Majesty would come round once more; that he would never be content until I was reinstated; that he had not for an instant lost heart. Besides, he said, I was of use in another way, and that was to make Hoskyns disclose himself.
The description is taken from a very able address on "Child Nature and Education" delivered some years ago by Miss Hoskyns Abrahall.
But I am hard put to it " "You are indeed," said Jeffreys. "Go on, Colonel Hoskyns." The Colonel sniffled through his nose, lifting his papers once more. "The next main charge against Mr. Mallock is even more grave. It is to the effect that when His Majesty and His Royal Highness were together at Newmarket, Mr.
An officer, whose face again was new to me named Colonel Hoskyns a truculent-looking fellow, in the dress of His Majesty's Lifeguards, stood very upright beside Sir George Jeffreys, with his hat in his hand. A sheaf of papers lay before the King on the table. I was even more disconcerted to see how His Majesty looked.
You might have done better than that." Then desperation seized me; and I flung all prudence to the winds. "I thought you wanted the truth," said I. "I will lie if you drive me much further. Go on, sir," I cried to Hoskyns. "Let us have the rest." The King stared at me, and his face was terrible. "A word more like that in my presence, sir " "Sir," I cried, "I mean no disrespect.
Hoskyns would never rest, he said, till he had made at least one more attempt upon me; and next time, he hoped, he would catch him at it, and get rid of the fellow once and for all. Neither could I even go to Hare Street; for how could I live again even for an hour in the house of my Cousin who had betrayed me?
It was perhaps fortunate for Dolignan that he had the grace to be a friend to Major Hoskyns of his regiment, a veteran laughed at by the youngsters, for the major was too apt to look coldly upon billiard-balls and cigars; he had seen cannon-balls and linstocks.
He had also, to tell the truth, swallowed a good bit of the mess-room poker, which made it as impossible for Major Hoskyns to descend to an ungentlemanlike word or action as to brush his own trousers below the knee.
I think he had had no malice to me, but had watched the whole affair as a kind of sport, which was what he did upon the Bench too. He made a movement as if to move away, but remembered where he was, and stood still. The two magistrates began to move also; and one nodded at the other. Colonel Hoskyns shook his head sharply, and began to speak. "Sir-" he began in his harsh voice.
What in the world could be the case against me? Hoskyns for whom I had conceived, so soon as I had set eyes on him, an extreme repulsion. He made a kind of apologetic cringing movement towards the papers. The King made no movement, but rested heavily in his chair, with his hat forward, his elbows on the arms of his chair and his fingers knit beneath his chin.
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