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"The years are gone by as though they was nothing, and still I've had her image on my heart. I've seen her to-day." "Her gentleman's still alive, ain't he?" asked Mrs. Smiley. "And likely to live," said Mrs. Moulder. "I've seen her to-day," Kenneby continued; "and now the Adriatic's free to wed another."
"I'm sure you're not, Mr. Moulder," said Bridget, who well understood the class to which Moulder belonged. "After that I met that lawyer in the street, and was ashamed to look him in the face. I'm blessed if he didn't come up and shake hands with me, and tell me that he knew all along that his client hadn't a leg to stand on. Now I call that beautiful." "Beautiful!" said Kenneby. "Yes, I do.
Can you say whether that was the purport of the evidence you gave then?" "If it's down there " said John Kenneby, and then he stopped himself. "It is down here; I have read it." "I suppose it's all right," said Kenneby. "I must trouble you to speak out," said the judge; "I cannot hear you, and it is impossible that the jury should do so."
"If you've a mind to help yourself, John, I suppose you'll do it," said Moulder. "None for me just at present, thank'ee," said Kenneby. "I suppose you wouldn't swallow nothing less than wine in them togs?" said the other, raising his glass to his lips. "Well, here's better luck, and I'm blessed if it's not wanting. I'm pretty well tired of this go, and so I mean to let 'em know pretty plainly."
Sam, if you twist that round any more, I'll box your ears. One can't hear oneself speak with the noise." "They don't seem to be very useful," said Kenneby. "Useful! They're got up for cheatery; that's what they're got up for. And that Dockwrath should be took in with 'em he that's so sharp at everything, that's what surprises me. But laws, John, it isn't the sharp ones that gets the best off.
"But he can't say as how it was the old gentleman's will as we signed. I'm well assured of that," said Bridget. But Kenneby, though thus called upon by the united strength of the company to solve all their doubts, still remained silent. "Come, lovey," said Mrs. Smiley, putting forth her hand and giving his arm a tender squeeze.
Furnival had been very grievous to him, but he had borne with that, hoping that some word of eulogy from the judge would set him right in the public mind. But no such word had come, and poor John Kenneby felt that the cruel hard world was too much for him.
Therefore when the lovely Thais sitting beside him, Thais however on this occasion having been provided not for himself but for his brother-in-law, when Thais objected to the use of his favourite word, he merely chuckled down in the bottom of his fat throat, and allowed her to finish her sentence. Poor John Kenneby had more much more, on his hands than this dreadful trial.
Smiley to his sister; "and I don't know that any woman has a right to expect more. As to the brick-fields ." And then there was a slight reference to business, with which it will not be necessary that the readers of this story should embarrass themselves. Soon after that Mr. Kenneby saw Mrs. Smiley home in a cab, and poor Mrs. Moulder sat by her lord till he roused himself from his sleep.
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