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Updated: June 13, 2025
Gabriel Pendle had given or rather, had lent Mosk a pistol to protect himself from gipsies, and vagrants, and harvesters on his frequent night journeys across the lonely heath between Beorminster and Southberry.
'I came to see Mrs Mosk, explained the chaplain, in a mighty dignified manner, 'but she is asleep, so I could not see her. In passing the door of this room I heard you relating your adventures, and I naturally stopped to listen. 'To hear if I had anything to say about my visit to your bishop, I suppose? growled Jentham, unpleasantly.
'You're good-lookin', I dessay, Bell, but he's gentry. 'I'm going to be gentry too, and I'll hold my own with the best of them. As Bishop Pendle's daughter-in-law, I'll scratch the eyes out of any of 'em as doesn't give me my place. Mosk drew a long breath. 'Bishop Pendle's daughter-in-law, he repeated, looking at his daughter with admiration. 'My stars! you are a clever girl, Bell.
'Goo'bye, interrupted Mosk, and throwing himself on his bed, he turned his face to the wall. Not another word of confession or repentance could Gabriel get him to speak. Nevertheless, the clergyman knelt down on the chill stones and implored God's pardon for this stubborn sinner, whose heart was hardened against the divine grace.
In an English fort, to think to have a mosk open to the ingress of a large body of Malays at all times is wholly incompatible with a certain reserve and security required from it. Beside, as the island is small, and soldiers at times inconsiderate, they might profane or defile its holy precincts, and thus lay the foundation of perpetual disputes, or even a serious rupture.
Before the man could recognise him, Mosk had jumped off his horse; and, at close quarters, had shot Jentham through the heart. 'He fell in the mud like a 'eap of clothes, said Mosk, 'so I jus' tied up the 'oss to the sign-post, an' went through his pockets. I got the cash a bundle of notes, they wos and some other papers as I found.
Late events had humbled the bishop's pride considerably; and the knowledge that George was nameless, induced him to consider Miss Arden more favourably as a wife for the young man. She was at least a lady, and not a barmaid like Bell Mosk; so the painful fact of Gabriel setting his heart so low made George's superior choice quite a brilliant match in comparison.
The Beorminster police declared that this network of lanes and alleys and malodorous cul-de-sacs was as dangerous a neighbourhood as any London slum, and they were particularly emphatic in denouncing the public-house known as The Derby Winner, and kept by a certain William Mosk, who was a sporting scoundrel and a horsey scamp.
'Yes, your lordship. 'The the the barmaid! My son! oh, it is it is impossible! 'I had it from the lips of the young lady herself, said Cargrim, delighted at the bishop's annoyance. 'Certainly Miss Mosk is hardly fitted to be the wife of a future rector still, she is a handsome 'Stop, sir! cried the bishop, imperiously, 'don't dare to couple my son's name with that of of of a barmaid.
Therefore, the next morning, Cargrim called on the archdeacon's widow to inveigle her into persecuting Mrs Mosk with a call. Mrs Pansey, with all her acuteness, could not see that she was being made use of luckily for Cargrim.
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