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Now the highest payment in our office goes to those who impersonate vicars, as being the most respectable and more of a strain. We are paid five guineas a visit. We have had the good fortune to satisfy the firm with our work; and we are now permanently vicars. Before that we had two years as colonels, the next in our scale. Colonels are four guineas." The Singular Speculation of the House-Agent
The house-agent laughed, dismissed them, and put others in their place. The noises and supernatural manifestations continued. The neighborhood caught up the story, and the house remained untenanted for three years. Several persons negotiated for it; but, somehow, always before the bargain was closed they heard the unpleasant rumors and declined to treat any further.
The next day I went to a house-agent, and stated my wish to sell my house, for I was resolved to try fortune to the last. The agent undertook to find a ready purchaser, and I begged an advance, which he made, and continued to make, until he had advanced nearly half the value. I did not hesitate, I had lost every advance, one after another, and was anxious to retrieve my fortune or be a beggar.
The house was called Trafalgar Lodge, and belonged to an old gentleman called Appleton a retired stockbroker, the house-agent said. Mr Appleton was there a good deal in the summer time, and was in residence now had been for the better part of a week.
"Before you go, Lieutenant Keith," he said. "Come now. Really, what about the birds?" "I'll take care of them," said Lieutenant Keith, still with his long back turned to us; "they shan't suffer." "Thank you, sir, thank you," cried the incomprehensible house-agent, with an air of ecstasy. "You'll excuse my concern, sir. You know I'm wild on wild animals. I'm as wild as any of them on that.
She put her affairs into the hands of a house-agent, and set out alone upon her yearly visit to her farm, which until now Felix and Hilda had always shared. She stayed on her way to spend a night at Riversborough her usual custom, that she might reach the unprepared home on the moors early in the day.
Nobody had taken the house, he gathered, though a few people had been after it. "Have you had anybody to-day?" Field asked. "I mean early to-day? A tall, fair man with pleasant manners who gave the name of Walters?" "Well, yes," the house-agent admitted. "He came and asked for the keys; he left a card on my table, and here it is.
As Harry walked down from her house in Green Street, his thoughts were divided between the new life and that old one which she had raised again before his eyes by her reference to Cecily. The balance was turned in favor of Blent by the sight of a man who was associated in his mind with it Sloyd, the house-agent who had let Merrion Lodge to Mina Zabriska.
The third was the little bald-headed house-agent with the wild whiskers, who called himself Montmorency. The spears, the green umbrella, and the cavalry sword hung in parallels on the wall. The sealed jar of strange wine was on the mantelpiece, the enormous rifle in the corner. In the middle of the table was a magnum of champagne. Glasses were already set for us.
I remember him as a journalist, a house-agent, a naturalist, an inventor, a publisher, a schoolmaster, a what are you now, Rupert?" "I am and have been for some time," said Rupert, with some dignity, "a private detective, and there's my client."
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