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People back inland, among various strange avocations, followed this one; at a shilling a-day, too! Some months before, as young Seth Minards happened to be dandering along the western cliff-track, he was met and accosted by an officer in uniform, who asked him many questions about the coast, its paths, the coves where a boat might be beached in moderate weather, &c., and made notes on the margin of a map.
By that time all thought of confessing at once had gone from his mind; it seemed to him impossible to do it; he could think of nothing but concealment. But, luckily he thought, when they got back to the house there was no one about. It was close to the hour for the mid-day dinner. Mrs. Minards and the maids were busy in the kitchen, Mrs. Anketell and Stella were upstairs in their rooms.
Jerome Thuillier, without actually confiding anything to his sister, for he made it a point of honor to obey his Mephistopheles, had rushed to her in great excitement to say: I'm going to ask the Minards; therefore take pains about your dinner. I have written to Monsieur and Madame Phellion; it is rather late; but there's no need of ceremony with them.
The eyes were set in a cadaverous, but handsome, face; and the face belonged to the stranger, who had recovered of his swoon, and was now stretched on the settle beside the fire. "I don't know who you may be, sir, but " "You are kind enough to excuse my rising to introduce myself. My name is Zebedee Minards."
"Of course you did, and so would any one who hadn't the sense not to go right slap in the middle as you did. I meant right 'long out the edge, where Jim has put the hurdles." Paul laughed contemptuously. "Why, any stupid could do that!" he said loftily. "Farmer Minards himself could walk there!" "That just shows how much you know," said Muggridge, with an air of great knowingness.
Anketell, smiling, getting up to collect baskets and parcels, "and there is Farmer Minards himself with his car and a cart for the luggage." Then out they got, the only passengers for that little station, while the people in the train stared at them, enviously the children thought, and the people on the platform looked with curiosity and interest at them, and their big pile of luggage.
" All the same when that furriner chap looks up in Tresidder's kitchen an' says 'My name is Zebedee Minards, you might ha' blown me down wi' a puff; an' says I to mysel', wakin' up last night an' thinkin' 'I'll ax a question of Old Zeb when I sees en, blest if I don't." "Then why in thunder don't 'ee make haste an' do it?"
He could not go all out there with his boots under his arms, nor could he get rid of them while Farmer Minards stood looking at him; he had to keep up the pretence, too, about his foot. "I've strained my ankle, rather," he said lamely. "I'm afraid I could not walk so far. Mother has bandaged it, and I've only got my slippers on. I'm awfully sorry," he added with genuine regret.
She saw her brother secure of forty thousand francs a year besides his pension, twelve thousand a year for Madame Thuillier and eighteen thousand a year for herself, besides the house they lived in, the rental of which she valued at eight thousand. "We are worth quite as much as the Minards," she remarked. "Don't chant victory before you win it," said Theodose.
But 'tis given to flutes to make a noticeable sound, whether tunable or false." "Terrible shy he looks, poor chap!" The three men turned and contemplated Young Zeb Minards, who sat on their left and fidgeted, crossing and uncrossing his legs. "How be feelin', my son?" "Very whitely, father; very whitely, an' yet very redly." Elias Sweetland, moved by sympathy, handed across a peppermint drop.
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