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And as Overtop was gifted to discover charms in material objects which were plain in other eyes, so Maltboy possessed the wonderful faculty of seeing beauty in female faces, where other people saw, perhaps, only a bad nose, dull eyes, and a pinched-up mouth.
"For one," said Matthew Maltboy, improving the opportunity to put in a word, "I should not be surprised to learn that you had a hundred." Miss Whedell appreciated the delicate compliment, and beamed fascination upon him. "It has been a horrid, dreary winter, has it not, Mr. Maltboy?" said she, in a tone that invited sympathy and confidence. Mr.
"No idea," said Wilkeson. "Perhaps mending a teakettle." "Or repairing an umbrella," suggested Maltboy. Overtop smiled, and said: "A person with the slightest powers of observation, would see that that man has genius in his face; that his thin arm is not used to hard mechanical labor; that his brain is so heated with great ideas, that he tries to cool it by opening the window.
Not only this, but she encouraged Maltboy to take a seat by her, and commenced talking with him of the opera, of balls, of new music, of fashions, of the last novel, rattling away on these subjects as if her whole soul were wrapped up in the discussion. It was almost a monologue.
Frump, having detected in her general appearance certain indications of what he called "a sensible woman." Mr. Quigg, feeling that he was one too many, took a "seat equally removed from the two ladies, and commenced playing soft tunes on his hat, and looking vacantly about the room. "I had begun to wonder, Mr. Maltboy," said Miss Whedell, "what makes our friends so backward to-day.
Overtop and Maltboy, to whom she smiled graciously, rising slightly from her chair, and sinking back again, without disturbing the symmetrical flow of the silken fountain. With a wave of her jewelled right hand she performed the ceremony of introduction between the three callers and Mrs.
Wilkeson and Overtop laughed, and, with a common impulse, punched Maltboy triumphantly in the ribs a friendly salute that was always vastly amusing to that gentleman. "Be it understood, at this stage of affairs," said Marcus, solemnly, "that I reject the Overtop theory, and wash my hands of all responsibility for Maltboy's misdeeds. Hallo! There he is again." "Who?
Quigg succeeded in persuading the policemen that it was necessary for the peace of society that they should turn all the other creditors out of the house, and leave Mr. Whedell's effects to be divided among them according to the regular legal process. As the officers marched up the steps of the house, it fell out that Matthew Maltboy came sauntering by.
His motive for annoying Miss Minford I can understand for this city is full of just such well dressed scoundrels; but the motive of the murder I can't comprehend. But mark me this fellow has some knowledge of it; and we must hunt him up. And, first, let us compare the letters." Marcus handed the two letters to the lieutenant, who, with Overtop and Maltboy, gave them a close examination.
They saw him at the same time; and both Overtop and Maltboy violently beckoned him to approach. Mr. Quigg added his solicitations in a calmer and more dignified manner, moving his arm like an automaton three times from the elbow.
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