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Lightbody ordered her husband to order her coachman to drive off as fast as possible. The captain, by her particular desire, had taken a house for her at Brighton, the gayest place she could think of. We leave this amiable bride rejoicing in the glory of having duped a lady of Mrs.
Oh, I beg pardon " "For simply interrupting him in a conversation with our second officer," continued our host, quietly. "The act, although harsh and perhaps unnecessarily final, was, I think, indorsed by the crew. James, pass the champagne to Mr. Lightbody." He paused a moment for the usual casual interruption, but even the active Legrande was silent.
He drew a long breath charged with bitter memories and said between his teeth, rebelling: "I always agreed." "Can it be? Is it possible?" commented De Gollyer, carefully mastering his expression. Lightbody, on the new subject of his wrongs, now began to explode with wrath. "And there's one thing more one thing that hurts! You know what she eloped in?
We'll run off just as we did in the old days good days, those. We knocked about a bit, didn't we? Good days, eh, Jack?" Lightbody, continuing to gaze at the book, said: "Last night only last night! Is it possible?" "Come, now, let's polish off Paris, or Vienna?" "No, no." Lightbody seemed to shrink at the thought. "Not that, nothing gay. I couldn't bear to see others gay happy." "Quite right.
"And you, ye thowless jade, to sit still and see my substance disponed upon to an idle, drunken, reprobate, worm-eaten serving-man, just because he kittles the lugs o' a silly auld wife wi' useless clavers, and every twa words a lee? I'll gar you as gude " Here the minister interposed, both by voice and action, while Dame Lightbody threw herself in front of her daughter, and flourished her ladle.
She had employed her convenient tame man , Captain Lightbody, humbly to suggest to her son, that some increase of jointure would be proper; and she was now in anxiety to know how these hints, and others which had been made by more remote means, would operate. As she was waiting to see Mr. Lightbody in her dressing-room, to hear the result of his suggestions, the door opened.
"Am I no to chastise my ain wife?" exclaimed the cooper very indignantly. "Ye may chastise your ain wife if ye like," answered Dame Lightbody; "but ye shall never lay finger on my daughter, and that ye may found upon." "For shame, Mr.
Leaning against the desk, he gazed down at the rug, mentally and physically inert. De Gollyer, returning to his nature, said presently: "I say, dear old fellow, it's awfully delicate, but I should like to be frank, from the shoulder out and out, do you mind?" "What? No." Seeing that Lightbody had only half listened, De Gollyer spoke with some hesitation: "Of course it's devilish impudent.
Sir R. Murchison therefore classes this Aymestry limestone as holding an intermediate position between the Upper and Lower Ludlow, but Mr. Lightbody remarks that at Mocktrie, near Leintwardine, the Lower Ludlow shales, with their characteristic fossils, occur both above and below a similar limestone.
"Do you want to know the truth?" "Come out with it!" Lightbody struggled a moment, all the hesitation showing in his lips. Then he said, slowly shaking his head, never lifting his eyes, speaking as though to another: "Jim, I've had a hell of a time!" "Impossible!" "Yes." He lifted his glass until he felt its touch against his lips and gradually set it down.
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