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Masterman, and which had been lost, had not been made on Mr. Masterman's share only, but upon my father's as well, and that Mr. Masterman had defrauded my mother. He said he had found the paper in a secret drawer some time after Mr.
That'll be ever so much better in many ways. Miss Clara and me, we'll go by the coach. Six of us, not reckoning the baby, in that heavy ginger-beer cart of Masterman's would be too much. 'An expensive holiday, rather, said Marshall. 'Leave that to me; that's my business. I ain't quite a beggar, and if we can't take our pleasure once a year, it's a pity.
"I did my best to try and persuade her to join us," continued Mrs Jefferson, after duly agreeing with Mrs Masterman that perhaps the stranger's hair was a shade too black, and her height too tall, and her complexion too pale and that there was something uncanny in the expression of the dark wild eyes, "more like the eyes of a horse than a human being," was Mrs Masterman's verdict.
Masterman's cabin to account for his extraordinary behaviour in rushing out on deck and jumping overboard in the middle of the night?" "No, sir," answered Polson with much simplicity. "He'd been drinkin' a goodish bit, and there were a half-empty bottle of rum under his piller; but " "A-ah!" ejaculated the skipper with a whole world of emphasis; "that may account for a good deal.
"Nothing," said Bill, faintly; "have you got any whiskey handy?" Islington brought a decanter, and, pouring out some spirits, handed the glass to Bill. Bill drained it, and then said, "Who is Miss Masterman?" "Mr. Masterman's daughter; that is, an adopted daughter, I believe." "Wot name?" "I really don't know," said Islington, pettishly, more vexed than he cared to own at this questioning.
It's because Masterman's dead, and he's keeping it dark. 'Golly! cried the impressionable John. 'But what's the use? Why does he do it, anyway? 'To defraud us of the tontine, said his brother. 'He couldn't; you have to have a doctor's certificate, objected John. 'Did you never hear of venal doctors? enquired Morris.
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