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'No, sir, said Polson, 'there's trouble in the house, and I'm going to stay here, unless I get my father's orders to go away. Now John Jervase was undoubtedly a good deal of a rogue, but no man is all of a piece, and he had one or two good characteristics.
'Me! cried James. 'Me that deserves to suffer? Who was it put the thing into my mind? Who was it that came time and time and time again to whisper into my ear, and tell me where I could find the men and and and everything? Why curse you ! 'Look here, said John Jervase. 'You're a sidesman and a trustee, and the Lord alone knows what all. Be decent in your language. 'You made me your catspaw.
The Colonel took a whip from the table and struck a blow upon the door, which was one of his substitutes for bell-ringing. 'Private Jervase, he said, 'is drilling a squad in front of the Cupola. Send him here. He waved his visitor to a chair, and plunged into the examination of a heap of papers which lay before him.
'I've kept my promise, said Jervase the elder, 'and I haven't spoke a word. And with that he exhibited a tact he had not shown before, and walked smartly away, leaving the boy and girl together. 'I have wanted to see you, she said amply, 'but I have kept away until I could be sure of bringing you good news. You know that my father is here?
'When everybody can see how a story will end, said one of the greatest masters of the narrative art, 'the story is ended, and the written history of Polson Jervase is coming to a close. There were certain things about which he was naturally anxious and about which it was impossible to ask any questions.
'You needn't think there's no clean money in my hands, said Jervase. 'I don't owe everything to that blasted brine-pit. You can take your own rights. You can take what I offer you, and feel as you're an honest man all the same. And Polly, if you're going out as a private soldier you'll want money. It isn't as if an untravelled man was talkin' to you.
Jervase himself rushed to answer this sudden and unexpected summons, and opening the door unguardedly, was blown back into the hall, from the walls of which every hanging picture and every garment were swept by the incoming blast, like leaves. It sounded as if the house were coming down.
Amongst those who escaped this dreary fate were Polson Jervase and the enemy he had rescued at so grave a risk of his own life, and they two, with about one half the original human cargo of the ship, reached Scutari, and were landed there, and carried into hospital.
What is the worth of the brine which has been pumped up from our workings since the firm of Jervase & Jervoyce began to prosper in that enterprise? 'I can tell you that, sir, roughly, in the turn of a hand. First and last, two hundred thousand pounds.
"Pour it down the villain's throat!" cried the Virginian fiercely. "Turn him out of the house!" cried Captain Langford, seizing Jervase Helwyse so roughly by the shoulder that the sacramental cup was overturned, and its contents sprinkled upon Lady Eleanore's mantle. "Whether knave, fool, or Bedlamite, it is intolerable that the fellow should go at large."
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