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If this matter be not very speedily amended, I shall think fit to print exact lists of all persons who are not at their own disposal, though above the age of twenty-one; and as the trader is made bankrupt for absence from his abode, so shall the gentleman for being at home, if, when Mr. Morphew calls, he cannot give him an exact account of what passes in his own family.
Even Brooks came to me with a feigned submission, desiring to eat with me again, yet in the main did not lessen his esteem for Morphew. His dissimulation, however, proved of infinite service in contributing to the finishing of our bark, which required the united efforts of all our heads and hands.
I only learnt that, by taking a good deal of trouble, when she was with Driffel. 'Starved to death at a month or two old, murmured Rolfe. 'The best thing for it, no doubt. 'It's worse than anything I have done, said Morphew, miserably. 'I think more of it now than I did at the time. A cruel, vile thing! 'And you told Miss Winter everything? 'Everything that can be spoken about.
Says he has good news "devilish good news", to be accurate. I wonder what it is. 'The lawsuit won, perhaps. 'Afraid not; that'll take a few more years. Odd thing, I have another letter from Cecil Morphew, and he, too, says that he has something hopeful to tell me about. Alma clapped her hands, an unusual expression of joy for her. 'We are cheering up all round! she exclaimed.
John Morphew, whom I have made the general of my dead men, acquainted me that the petitioners were all of that order, and could produce certificates to prove it if I required it.
Rolfe liked him for his ingenuousness, and for the vein of poetry in his nature. The love affair still went on, but Morphew seldom alluded to it, and his seasoned friend thought of it as a youthful ailment which would pass and be forgotten. 'I'm convinced, said the young man presently, 'that any one who really gives his mind to it can speculate with moderate success.
Jordan's rent, it's none of my business how it's paid, so long as it's paid, and I'll send her back her things. But they'll just have to be took next time," he added composedly. "Over and over; it's always the same story with them sort of poor folks, they're too poor for anything, that's the truth," the man said. Morphew came back to my room after my visitor was gone. "Mr.
It seemed without sense or meaning to me; and after the excellent joke about his superior interest in his master to mine in my father, was dismissed lightly enough from my mind. I tried to invent some way of telling this to my father without letting him perceive that Morphew had been finding faults in him, or I listening; for it seemed a pity to lose so good a joke.
His declaration in a letter, not long ago, that he was unworthy of any good woman's love, pointed to something which had had its share in the obvious smirching of his character; something common enough, no doubt; easily divined by Harvey Rolfe, though he could not learn how far the man's future was compromised. Today Morphew began with talk of a hopeful tenor.
This startled me much, and I asked hurriedly, "What do you mean?" without reflecting that to ask for private information from a servant about my father's habits was as bad as investigating into a stranger's affairs. It did not strike me in the same light. "Mr. Philip," said Morphew, "a thing 'as 'appened as 'appens more often than it ought to. Master has got awful keen about money in his old age."
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