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Monsey jumped, with a scream, out of his seat as though stung by an adder. Ralph looked at him for a moment with an expression of pity. "I might have known you were timid at heart, schoolmaster. Perhaps you're gallant over a glass." There could be no doubt of little Monsey's timidity. All his jests had forsaken him. Sim had seen the gesture that expressed horror at contact even with his clothes.
"Then know that your life's not worth a pin's fee if you remain here to be taken. Oh, that Garth that devil's garth that that Joe Garth!" There was clearly no epithet that suited better with Monsey's mood than the said monster's proper name. "Friends," said Ralph, more seriously, "it's clear I can't leave before I see my father buried, and it's just as clear I can't see him buried if I stay.
"None," answered Ralph. "Let me carry him in." When the door of the inn had closed behind Ralph as he went out with Rotha, old Matthew Branthwaite, who had recovered his composure after Monsey's song, and who had sat for a moment with his elbow on his knee, his pipe in his hand and his mouth still open, from which the shaft had just been drawn, gave a knowing twitch to his wrinkled face as he said,
I was in hopes that your course of waters this year at Baden would have given you a longer reprieve from your painful complaint. If I do not mistake, you carried over with you some of Dr. Monsey's powders. Have you taken any of them, and have they done you any good? I know they did me a great deal. I, who pretend to some skill in physic, advise a cool regimen, and cooling medicines.
Robbie had put his arm on Monsey's shoulder and swung him round, and Ralph heard no more. But yester-night I prayed aloud In anguish and in agony. Coleridge. The night was far advanced, and yet Ralph had not returned to Shoulthwaite. It was three hours since Matthew Branthwaite had left the Moss. Mrs. Ray still sat before the turf fire and gazed into it in silence.
I was in hopes that your course of waters this year at Baden would have given you a longer reprieve from your painful complaint. If I do not mistake, you carried over with you some of Dr. Monsey's powders. Have you taken any of them, and have they done you any good? I know they did me a great deal. I, who pretend to some skill in physic, advise a cool regimen, and cooling medicines.
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