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Upon the road the idea more than once occurred to him, that even, yet he had better return to Middlemas, and secure his happiness by uniting himself at once to Menie Gray, and to humble competence.
Middlemas dealt a blow to the assailant, which was amply and heartily repaid, and a combat would have ensued, but for the interference of the superintendent and his assistants, who, with a dexterity that showed them well acquainted with such emergencies, clapped a straight-waistcoat upon each of the antagonists.
"And this is my son Cuddie," exclaimed Mause, in her turn, "the son of his father, Judden Headrigg, wha was a douce honest man, and of me, Mause Middlemas, an unworthy professor and follower of the pure gospel, and ane o' your ain folk.
He renewed, with additional splendours, the various panoramic scenes of India and Indian adventures, which had first excited the ambition of Middlemas, and assured him, that even if he should not be able to get him a commission instantly, yet a short delay would only give him time to become better acquainted with his military duties; and Middlemas was too much elevated by the liquor he had drank to see any difficulty which could oppose itself to his fortunes.
"That is odd enough Certainly you said something about Middlemas?" replied General Witherington. "I mentioned the name of the town," said Hartley. "Ay, and I caught it up as the name of the recruit I was indeed occupied at the moment by my anxiety about my wife. But this Middlemas, since such is his name, is a wild young fellow, I suppose?" "I should do him wrong to say so, your Excellency.
"You are a villain!" said Hartley, breaking from him, "and I always thought you so." "And you," answered Middlemas, "are a fool, and I never thought yon better. Off he goes Let him the game has been played and lost I must hedge my bets: India must be my back-play." All was in readiness for his departure.
Ye are standing laughing there, Dick Middlemas; I would have you be sure he does not cut you out with your bonny partner yonder." "He be !" Middlemas was beginning a sentence which he could not have concluded with strict attention to propriety, when the master of the band summoned McFittoch to his post, by the following ireful expostulation: "What are ye about, sir? Mind your bow-hand.
But you look grave upon it. Who the devil is it that has made such a hole in your heart?" "Pshaw!" answered Middlemas, "I'm sure you must remember Menie my master's daughter." "What, Miss Green, the old pottercarrier's daughter? a likely girl enough, I think." "My master is a surgeon," said Richard, "not an apothecary, and his name is Gray." "Ay, ay, Green or Gray what does it signify?
He placed on his finger the remarkable ring intrusted to his care by Richard Middlemas, and endeavoured to make it conspicuous in approaching Mrs. Witherington; taking care, however, that this occurred during her husband's absence.
"He admitted," replied Hartley, "that in circumstances where the case was doubtful, such presumptions of legitimacy might be admitted. But he said they were liable to be controlled by positive and precise testimony, as, for instance, the evidence of the mother declaring the illegitimacy of the child." "But there can exist none such in my case," said Middlemas hastily, and with marks of alarm.
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