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Updated: June 21, 2025
Joanna felt that Bertie was angry with her he was angry with her for losing her case, just as she was angry with Edward Huxtable. This was too much the tears rose in her eyes. "Will it do you much damage?" he asked. "In pocket, I mean." "Oh, I I'll have to sell out an investment or two, but it won't do any real hurt to Ansdore. Howsumever, I'll have to go without my motor-car."
Joanna Godden's temper might be bad, but her whisky was good. He wondered if the one would make up for the other to Arthur Alce or whoever had married her by this time next year. Mr. Huxtable was not alone in his condemnation of Joanna's choice. The whole neighbourhood disapproved of it.
She had touched the fringe of the latter experience and found it disappointing, so she felt that she would now prefer the other she would like to marry some man of the upper classes, a lawyer or a parson or a squire. The two first were represented in her mind by Mr. Huxtable and Mr.
When the last remnant of protective jargon had been torn away, Joanna knew that her Appeal had been dismissed and she would have to pay the Duty and also the expenses of the action. The only comfort that remained was the thought of what she would say to Edward Huxtable when she could get hold of him. They had a brief, eruptive interview in the passage.
"Yet you won't even go down the High Street by yourself I never met anyone so inconsistent." "It's my Appeal," said Joanna. "But there's no need for you to attend. Can't you trust anyone to do anything without you?" "Not Edward Huxtable," said Joanna decidedly. "Then why did you choose him for your lawyer?" "He's the best I know."
Late at night I heard him consoling Dr. Huxtable, prostrated by the tragedy of his master's death, and later still he entered my room as alert and vigorous as he had been when he started in the morning. "All goes well, my friend," said he. "I promise that before to-morrow evening we shall have reached the solution of the mystery."
For the sake of argument, let us say I am a Rogue. What is Mr. Huxtable?" "A respectable man, or I should not have seen him in the house where we first met." "Very good. Now observe! You talked of writing to Mr. Huxtable a minute ago. What do you think a respectable man is likely to do with a young lady who openly acknowledges that she has run away from her home and her friends to go on the stage?
Edward Huxtable had done his best to convince her that her presence was unnecessary, but she did not trust either him or the excellent counsel he had engaged. She had made up her mind to attend in person, and look after him properly. The attitude of Brodnyx and Pedlinge towards this new crisis in Joanna Godden's life was at first uncertain.
He could not tolerate the idea of succeeding Gerald in his own person, but still he found it very disagreeable to consent to the thought that Huxtable should replace him Huxtable, who was a good fellow enough, but of whom Frank Wentworth thought, as men generally think of their brothers-in-law, with a half-impatient, half-contemptuous wonder what Mary could ever have seen in so commonplace a man.
Joanna would not have confessed for worlds that she did not understand the grounds of her appeal, though she wished Edward Huxtable would let her make at least some reference to her steam tractor, and thus win her victory on moral grounds, instead of just through some lawyer's mess. But, moral appeal or lawyer's mess, her case should go to the Commissioners, and if necessary to the High Court.
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