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Mann's indiscretion or through the servants at the Manor, it had become known that the young man was suffering from a bullet-wound, and the story circulated by Mrs. Mewling led gossips to suppose that he had been murderously assailed in that land of notorious profligacy known to Wanley as 'abroad. That, however, was now become an old story.
Mewling Luson, a well-known resident in Yarmouth, whose father, Mr. William Luson, was nearly connected the Cromwell family. Nathaniel Carter, the son-in-law of Ireton, was in the habit of showing the room, and relating the occurrence connected with it, which happened when he was a boy. Cromwell was not at that council.
Miss Vance thinks it time that I was told, and I agree with her. It appears that I am a pauper, and always have been. My father died penniless." "Then Jacques will be poor?" "Jacques! You think of nothing but that mewling, senseless thing! It is mother she always has supported me. We are living now on the money that she earns from week to week, while I play that I am an artist!"
I feared it was an appointment. Your explanation is all I wanted: it relieves me. The worst of it is, other people will hear of it, and of course we can't explain to everyone. 'Why should people hear? Adela exclaimed, in a quivering voice. It was not that she feared to have the story known, but mingled feelings made her almost passionate. 'Mrs. Mewling has no right to go about talking of me.
But the chamber in which they knew their quarry had been housed was empty, so they paused undecided, while from all sides came the smothered sounds of terror like the mewling and squeaking of mice hidden in a wall. Suddenly some one shouted, "There they are!" and pointed to the topmost gallery, which ran in front of the condemned cells.
"I would say there was a third choice, and that the right one." "I tell you," said Mr. Archer, "the man I have in view hath two ways open, and no more. One to wait, like a poor mewling baby, till Fate save or ruin him; the other to take his troubles in his hand, and to perish or be saved at once. It is no point of morals; both are wrong.
Waltham asserted with vigour. 'Ha! Mrs. Mewling sighed deeply. 'How relieved I am! I did so fear! 'Nothing whatever, the other lady repeated. 'Thank goodness! Then there is no need to breathe a word of those shocking matters. But they do get abroad so! A reflection Mrs. Mewling was justified in making.
Ain't that enough to sour any man? Why don't you get up and out and exercise yourself like the right kind of wimmin do? Play tennis or get something in you besides the rotten air of this flat, and mewling over that sick-eyed cur. Get out! Scc-c-c-c-c!" The animal bellied to the door, tail down, and into the rear darkness of the hallway. "Max, what's got you?
Mewling was on the warpath, and the intelligence she spread was of a kind to run like wildfire. The approach to the Manor was a carriage-road, obliquely ascending the bill from a point some quarter of a mile beyond the cottages which once housed Belwick's abbots. Of the house scarcely a glimpse could be caught till you were well within the gates, so thickly was it embosomed in trees.
Some time after they disappeared, the ground opened before us, and out of it came forth a cat, black and white, with her hair standing upright, and keeping up a fearful mewling; a black wolf followed her close, and gave her no time to rest.
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