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Moncton, relative to some papers, which he said had been entrusted to my care. My place by Catherine Lee's side was instantly filled by Theophilus. Mrs.
Moncton had resumed his seat in his large study chair, and he rose with such calm dignity to receive his unwelcome visitor, that his late agitation appeared a delusion of my own heated imagination. Curiosity was one of my besetting sins.
Your mother went by the name of Moncton, and was introduced to his sporting friends as my brother's wife. But no evidence exists of a marriage having taken place; and until such evidence can be procured, the world will look upon you as illegitimate.
If you will not rely upon my promise to destroy it, I will burn it before your eyes." "That alone will satisfy my doubts," returned his companion. "Be cautious how you open the door, or the lad will awake." "Nonsense, young folks like him sleep well." "Ay, Robert Moncton, they are not troubled with an evil conscience."
"Talk of his satanic majesty, Geoff. You know the rest. Here comes the heir of the house of Moncton." "He does not belong to the elder branch," I cried, fiercely. "Poor as I am, I consider myself the head of the house, and one of these days will dispute his right to that title." "Tush!" said George, resuming his pen, "you are talking sad nonsense. But hereby hangs a tale."
The young Baronet fell desperately in love with his fair dependent, and the girl and her mother entertained hopes that he would make her his wife. Pride, however, hindered him from making her Lady Moncton.
Moncton acted thus, on purpose to annoy Theophilus, and make him feel the weight of the resentment, which for good reasons he dared not openly express; while he praised my talents and application to business, on purpose to rouse the envy and hatred of my cousin. One afternoon, as we were sitting over the dessert, Mr.
As I passed through the passage, an irresistible impulse of curiosity induced me to glance at the paper, which was unsealed, and my eye fell upon the following words, traced in characters of uncommon beauty and delicacy: "If Robert Moncton refuses to admit my claims, and to do me justice, I will expose his villainy, and his son's heartless desertion, to the world.
Accordingly the government took power to operate the road from Winnipeg to Moncton, and to expropriate the company's branch from Superior to Fort William, pending further negotiations. The great Canadian railway companies are much more than railways. The Grand Trunk system, in its new expansion, branched into every neighbouring field which could be made to increase the traffic.
When a man's position in life is marked out for him by others, and he is left no voice in the matter, in nine cases out of ten, he is totally unfitted by nature and inclination for the post he is called to fill. So it was with my father, Edward Moncton. A person less adapted to fill an important place in the mercantile world, could scarcely have been found.
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