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Updated: June 25, 2025
By this time the Furnaces had built a new landing-quay the same to which your boat is moored at this moment and rigged up arbours and come-sit-by-me's in every corner of the garden and under every plum-tree and laylock-bush: for William John was extending his season by degrees, and had gone so far as to set up a board in May-time by Admiral's Hard, down at Devonport, and on it 'Officers of the United Services will Kindly take Notice that the Lay locks in Merry-Garden are in Bloom.
In the orchards, from under masses of traveller's joy, you may pull away rotten pieces of timber that once made arbours and summer-houses. The present tenant will sub-let you the whole of Merry-Garden, if you wish, for two pounds ten shillings per annum. He is an old man, with an amazing memory and about as much sentiment as my boot.
"Why why, wherever have you left dear Sophia and the rest of my charges?" "At Merry-Garden, ma'am and in various summer-houses, ma'am and making free, ma'am, with a vicious soldiery!" "But it is impossible!" cried Miss St. Maur when he had told his tale of horror. "I refuse to believe it. Indeed, sir, I can only think you have taken leave of your senses!"
The last of the party was a slip of an officer of the French Navy Raynold by name that had been taken prisoner by Mr. Nandy, of course, knew no more about them than what his eyes told him, that they were a party of officers from Plymouth come to enjoy themselves at Merry-Garden.
Of course, when they picked him up he hadn't a notion he possessed any such gift. Well here, as you might say, was a pretty kettle of fish for Aunt Barbree. Here not only was a loving husband killed, and a sister-in-law, but at one stroke two out of the three healthy lives on which the whole lease of Merry-Garden depended.
"Is it worse tasted than sulphur-water?" asked Nandy, and with that a wicked thought came into his mind, for he still nursed a spite against all that he had suffered under Dr. Clatworthy's care. "If you can't get taken in at Merry-Garden," said he, "why don't you try Hi-jeen Villa, up the creek?" "What's that?" "It's it's another establishment," said Nandy. "Respectable? You'll excuse my askin' "
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