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'Did I tell you, Moxey, that I had taken rooms down there, to be able to spend a day or two near my friends the Jacoxes occasionally? On the way here, I looked in at Staple Inn, but Earwaker is away somewhere. What an odd thing that people will go off without letting one know! It's such common ill-luck of mine to find people gone away I'm really astonished to find you at home, Miss Moxey.
"Blarney or no blarney, them's the facts," said Moxey, yawning, "an' I'm off to bed." "Ditto," said Frank, stretching himself. The two tressels, which were always removed from the room during the day, had been brought in, and were by this time occupied by Mason and Williams, whose duty it was to keep watch that night.
'I daresay we shall meet somewhere about here before then. Of course you are reading hard, and haven't much leisure. I'm an idle dog, unfortunately. I should like to work, but I don't quite know what at. I suppose this is a transition time with me. Godwin tried to discover the implication of this remark. Had it any reference to Miss Janet Moxey?
'No. The word fell from her, absently, despondently. 'Miss Moxey, would anything be gained by our discussing my position? If you think it a mystery, hadn't we better leave it so? She made no answer. 'But perhaps, he went on, 'you have told them the Walworths and the Moorhouses that I owe my friends an explanation?
Moxey, in a tone of genial invitation. 'I daresay you had dinner long enough ago to have picked up a new appetite. Godwin had a perturbing vision of the five Miss Moxeys and of a dinner table, such as he was not used to sit at; he wished to decline, yet knew not how to do so with civility. 'Yes, yes; come along! added his friend, heartily. 'Tell us something about your chemistry paper.
It was feared one of the partition walls was coming down, so each man beat a hasty retreat. They swarmed out at the door like bees, and were all safe when the wall fell all safe, but one, Joe Corney, who, being a reckless man, took things too leisurely, and was knocked down by the falling bricks. Moxey and Williams ran back, and carried him out of danger.
Flushes and chills ran through him; he could not raise his eyes from the ground. 'It belongs to no one but you, said Moxey, with cold persistence. 'Her last wish was to do you a kindness, and I, at all events, shall never consent to frustrate her intention. The legacy represents something more than eight hundred a year, as the investments now stand.
Oh, of course I speak French; but it is such a disagreeable language don't you think so? 'Do you go in for cycling, Mr. Moxey? inquired Mrs. Palmer's laughing niece, from a little distance. 'For cycling? With a great effort he recovered himself and grasped the meaning of the words. 'No, I I'm sorry to say I don't. Capital exercise! 'Mr.
'But surely there is no reason for keeping it secret. Why may I not speak freely? Buckland told me that he had heard you spoken of at the house of people named Moxey. She endeavoured to understand the smile which rose to his lips. 'Now it is clear to me, he said. 'Yes, I suppose that was inevitable, sooner or later. 'You knew that he had become acquainted with the Moxeys?
A few paces from the garden gate, he encountered Miss Janet Moxey, just coming home from walk or visit. Another grab at his hat, and he would have passed without a word, but the girl stopped him. 'We hear that you are going to London, Mr. Peak. 'Yes, I am, Miss Moxey. She examined his face, and seemed to hesitate. 'Perhaps you have just been to say good-bye to father? 'Yes.
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