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But she interrupted me again before I could get out a word. "Oh, Mr Neverbend, they'll never be able to do it, and I'm afraid that then you'll be vexed." "My dear, if the law be " "Oh yes, the law is a very beautiful thing; but what's the good of laws if they cannot be carried out?
Val, or even Mrs. A. Tudor, encountered Lactimel and Ugolina Neverbend on equal terms. There is a distressing habitual humility in many unmarried ladies of an uncertain age, which at the first blush tells the tale against them which they are so painfully anxious to leave untold.
'I am sorry for it, Sir Gregory, very sorry; I had hoped to have had your countenance. 'I would give it you, Mr. Tudor, if I could consistently with my duty as a public servant; but as I cannot, I am sure you will not ask for it. How Fidus Neverbend would have admired the chief commissioner could he have seen and heard him at this moment!
It first occurred to him that Scott must have been sent down as a third Commissioner to assist at the investigation; and he would have been right glad to have known that this was the case, for he found that the management of Mr. Neverbend was no pastime. But he soon learnt that such relief was not at hand for him.
Even your sympathy cannot bring us round now. If anything could do it that would!" "In my opinion," continued Eva, "Britannula will never be beaten as long as Mr Neverbend is at the wicket." "Sir Kennington has been too much for us, I fear," said Jack, with a forced smile, as he retired. There was now but the one hope left. Mr Brittlereed remained, but he was all.
Now Alaric had been told of this very report, and was aware that he was going to Tavistock in order that the joint result of his and Mr. Neverbend's labours might be communicated to the Crown officers in intelligible language. The monster report before him contained twenty-six pages of close folio writing, and he felt that he really could not oblige Mr. Neverbend by reading it.
Mrs Neverbend had never made herself prominent before in any public question; but on this she seemed to entertain a very warm opinion. Whether this arose entirely from her desire to promote Jack's welfare, or from a reflection that her own period of deposition was gradually becoming nearer, I never could quite make up my mind.
But it became immediately necessary to take steps to stop the evil, and I was the more bound to do so because the only delinquent named to me was my own son. "If it be so," I said aloud in the office, "Jack Neverbend shall sleep this night in prison."
"Oh, Mr Neverbend," she said, taking me by the arm, "there are only a few boys who are talking about papa." Through all the noises and tumults of these times there was an evident determination to speak of Jack as a boy. Everything that he did and all that he said were merely the efflux of his high spirits as a schoolboy. Eva always spoke of him as a kind of younger brother.
Scott had early heard and of what official event did he not obtain early intelligence? that Neverbend was to go down to Tavistock about the Mary Jane tin mine, and that a smart colleague was required for him. He would fain, for reasons of his own, have been that smart colleague himself; but that he knew was impossible. He and Neverbend were the Alpha and Omega of official virtues and vices.
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