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The parties met a few miles from London, in a field close to the Uxbridge Road, where B , who was a hot-tempered man, did his best to kill my friend; but, after the exchange of two shots, without injury to either party, they were separated by their seconds. B was the son of Lady Bridget B , and the seconds were Payne, uncle to George Payne, and Colonel Joddrell of the Guards.
She was, besides, no longer satisfied with taking her spoonful of brandy in every dish of tea; she found herself uncomfortable, she said, unless she took every morning fasting a full glass of the good cordial recommended to her by her friend, Mrs. Joddrell, the apothecary's wife. Now this good cordial, in plain English, was a strong dram.
His face changed. He took a penknife out of his pocket, and ripped off the stout paper covering. Then, before the astonished Anna could make a movement, he very quietly pinioned her elbows and walked her towards the door giving into the hall. "Captain Joddrell?" he called out. And with a bewildered feeling of abject fear, Anna heard the quick steps of the soldier echoing down the hall.
But 'tis the same with all of you. There's your cousin Joddrell refused me a hundred guineas last week, though the piano-forte and harp I bought for her before she was married stood me in double that sum, and are now useless lumber on my hands; and she never could have had Joddrell without them, as she knows as well as I do. As for Mrs.
However, they are going to part now, I hear: Tollemache was tired of her before the honey-moon was over, as I foretold. Then there's the musical girl. Joddrell, who has no more ear than a post, went and married her, because he had a mind to set up for a connoisseur in music; and Mrs. Stanhope flattered him that he was one." The gentlemen joined in the general laugh: the tragic muse sighed.
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