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'Leave the cloth and the coffee, said John, the elder, 'Mr Liversage is coming in. 'Yes, Mr John, said Maggie. 'Slate, Maggie, Robert ordered laconically, with a gesture towards the mantelpiece behind him. 'Yes, Mr Robert, said Maggie. She gave him a slate with slate-pencil attached, which hung on a nail near the mantlepiece.
'Anyhow, you may be sure, dear, said Annie stiffly, 'that I shan't rob them of their vile money! Nothing would induce me to touch it! 'Of course not, dearest! said Liversage or, rather the finer part of him said it; the baser part somewhat regretted that vile twelve thousand or so. He took her hand again.
You were right, child, after all; and I am an old fool, over whose eyes any one seems to be able to pull the wool." She spoke in her sternest tones, and held out to me a newspaper in which was the announcement of the nuptials of Mr. Charles Liversage Spence and Miss Lucretia Kingsley, "no cards." "Did you not know they were engaged?" I inquired.
'How do, Pow? Robert greeted him in turn, also between two puffs of a pipe. And 'How do, little 'un? replied Liversage. A chair was indicated to him, and he sat down, and Robert poured out some coffee into a third cup which Maggie had brought. John pushed away the extra special of the Staffordshire Signal, which he had been reading. 'What's up these days? John demanded.
At the same moment old Mrs Liversage came hastening down the garden, and Liversage dropped the hand. 'Powell, she said. 'Here's John Hessian, and he wants to see you! 'The dickens! exclaimed Liversage, glancing at Annie. 'I must go, said Annie. 'I shall go by the fields. Good night, dear Mrs Liversage. 'Wait ten seconds, Liversage pleaded, 'and I'll be with you. And he ran off.
But you must be married within a year of my death. And if the one that marries cares to give five thousand pounds or so to the other, of course there's nothing to prevent him. This is just a hint. She deserves something for her disappointment, and she shall have it. Mr Liversage, solicitor, must kindly be my executor.
Fact is, I've had a devil of a shindy with Jack, and Maggie's run off, and, anyhow, I couldn't possibly stop in the same house with Jack tonight. 'But what ? 'See here, said Robert. 'I can't talk. Just let me have a bed in your spare room. I'm sure you mother won't mind. 'Why, certainly, said Liversage.
Passing Greathead's location, we come among the men of Dalgairns at Blauw Krantz. Then those of Liversage about Manly's Flats. John Stanley, `Head of all Parties, as he styled himself, belonged to the same neighbourhood. Turvey's party were in Grobblaar's Kloof; William Smith's at Stony Vale, Dr Clarke's at Collingham.
She then stated that she would not remain in such a house, and she departed. 'But whatever made you do it, dearest? These words were addressed to Annie Emery on the glorious summer evening which closed that glorious summer day, and they were addressed to her by no other person than Powell Liversage.
'It was in that registered letter addressed to your sister that the Post Office people wouldn't hand over until we'd taken out letters of administration. 'Well, I'm dashed! muttered John. 'Who'd have thought of that? You've got the will, then? Liversage nodded.
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