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The money-lender, having occasion to be in the neighbourhood, called to discuss the matter in person, and to ask if Losely could not get some other person to join in security suggesting his brother-in-law. Upon which the money-lender remarked that the precarious nature of his income was the very reason why a security was wanted.
Was it not enough that Guy Darrell should be so obdurate! must the mild William Losely be also a malefic in their horoscope? But when, that same evening, the old man more observantly than ever watched his grandchild, his comfort vanished misgivings came over him he felt assured that the fatal shaft had been broken in the wound, and that the heart was bleeding inly.
Thus left alone, Losely and Rugge looked at each other with a shy and yet cunning gaze, Rugge's hands in his trouser's pockets, his head thrown back; Losely's hands in voluntarily expanded, his head bewitchingly bent forward, and a little on one side. "Sir," said Rugge, at length, "what do you say to a chop and a pint of wine? Perhaps we could talk more at our ease elsewhere.
"But, Lor' love you, miss, you would not put yourself in the power of such a black-hearted villing?" "In his power! No, Bridget; fear not, he must be in mine, sooner or later in mine, hand and foot. Patience!" As she was thus speaking, a knock at the door! "It is he; I told you so; quick!" But it was not Jasper Losely. It was Mr. Rugge. "When God wills, all winds bring rain." Ancient Proverb.
But agree to sail to Australasia, and I will engage to you an income larger than you say you extorted from Poole, to be spent in those safer shores." "And you will go with me, I suppose," said Losely, with ungracious sullenness. "Go with you, as you please. Be where you are yes." The ruffian bounded with rage and loathing. "Woman, cross me no more, or I shall be goaded into "
For at Losely's first appearance at the convivial meeting just concluded, being nettled at the imperious airs of superiority which that roysterer assumed, mistaking for effeminacy Jasper's elaborate dandyism, and not recognizing in the bravo's elegant proportions the tiger-like strength of which, in truth, that tiger-like suppleness should have warned him, Dolly Poole provoked a quarrel, and being himself a stout fellow, nor unaccustomed to athletic exercises, began to spar; the next moment he was at the other end of the room full sprawl on the floor; and two minutes afterwards, the quarrel made up by conciliating banqueters, with every bone in his skin seeming still to rattle, he was generously blubbering out that he never bore malice, and shaking hands with Jasper Losely as if he had found a benefactor.
In a few minutes more, Losely was again on horseback; and as he rode towards Ouzelford, Rugge and his dusty Faithful shambled on in the opposite direction shambled on, footsore and limping, along the wide, waste, wintry thoroughfare vanishing from the eye, as their fates henceforth from this story.
Losely made no answer, but slunk off with a fast, furtive stride, hastening out of the moonlit sward into the gloom of the leafless trees. When Darrell was alone with Lionel and Alban Morley, the calm with which he had before startled them vanished. He poured out his thanks with deep emotion.
"I asked Willy Losely what he meant to do with his son, and hinted that I might get the boy a commission in the army without purchase. "'No, said Willy. 'I know what it is to set up for a gentleman on the capital of a beggar. It is to be a shuttlecock between discontent and temptation. I would not have my lost wife's son waste his life as I have done.
"Losely had not mentioned it. When the servant retired, Gunston, thinking over Losely's quotation respecting his money, resolved to ascertain what he had in his bureau. He opened it, examined the drawers, and found, stowed away in different places at different times, a larger sum than he had supposed gold and notes to the amount of L1,975, of which nearly L300 were in sovereigns.
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