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Then comes an alarmingly business-like minute of a meeting at which there were "Present: Jephson, MacShaughnassy, Brown, and Self"; and at which the "Proceedings commenced at 8.30."
He must either look as if he wanted to share her money, or else as if he were ready to give her up. "Arst yourself, John Jephson," answered Alice, "whether it's likely a young lady of fortun' would be keepin' company with a young man as didn't know how to take off his hat to her in the park?" Alice did not above half mean what she said: she wished mainly to enhance her own importance.
The trustees of the Jephson Gardens, at Leamington, about the same time, advertised for sale some surplus plants of rare kinds, and Mr. Gillott paid the gardens a visit. He had selected a number of costly specimens, when his eye fell on a tree of surpassing beauty. He inquired its price, and was told that it was not for sale.
When, however, I told her that my friend Jephson was going to collaborate with me, she remarked, "Oh," in a doubtful tone; and when I further went on to explain to her that Selkirk Brown and Derrick MacShaughnassy were also going to assist, she replied, "Oh," in a tone which contained no trace of doubtfulness whatever, and from which it was clear that her interest in the matter, as a practical scheme, had entirely evaporated.
The Platform, its Origin and Progress, by Henry Jephson , gives a very interesting historical account of the process. 57 George III. cap. 19, and 60 George III. cap. 6. See Jephson's Platform, pp. 167-70. See Jephson's Platform, i. 348, 455, 517. See Ibid. ii. 129-40 for some interesting passages as to this. Official Correspondence , 308.
At the same time she did mean it half, and that would have been enough for Jephson. He rose, grievously wounded. "Good-bye, Alice," he said, taking the hand she did not refuse. "Ye're throwin' from ye what all yer money won't buy." She gave a scornful little laugh, and John walked out of the kitchen. At the door he turned with one lingering look; but in Alice there was no sign of softening.
"What have I done," she seemed to say "what have I done that this trouble should come upon me?" Jephson roused himself on my completion of this anecdote and sat up. "You and your friends appear to have been the possessors of some very remarkable cats," he observed. "Yes," I answered, "our family has been singularly fortunate in its cats."
"No, sir," he replied, "you'll 'ardly believe it, but I 'ad a bit of a row with a policeman just before I got to the corner, and it put 'im clean out o' my 'ead. Blessed if I didn't run 'im on to Victoria." Said Brown one evening, "There is but one vice, and that is selfishness." Jephson was standing before the fire lighting his pipe.
Jephson had never developed all those Parades and Crescents out of his magic well. I used to wonder whether the inhabitants had ever yet heard of railways, or, at their slow rate of progress, had even reached the epoch of stage-coaches.
Nevertheless, it is hundreds upon hundreds of years old, if we reckon up that sleepy lapse of time during which it existed as a small village of thatched houses, clustered round a priory; and it would still have been precisely such a rural village, but for a certain Doctor Jephson, who lived within the memory of man, and who found out the magic well, and foresaw what fairy wealth might be made to flow from it.
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