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Put thus, it must surely gain over every honest, straight-thinking man. In comparison, the points Ocock was going to advance shrank to mere legal quibbles and hair-splitting evasions. Then the plaintiff himself went into the witness-box and Mahony's feelings became involved as well. This his adversary! this poor old mangy greybeard, who stood blinking a pair of rheumy eyes and weakly smiling.
In building the new shed, Mahony had been careful to choose a corner far from the house. Marriages were still uncommon enough on Ballarat to make him an object of considerable curiosity. People took to dropping in of an evening old Ocock; the postmaster; a fellow storekeeper, ex-steward to the Duke of Newcastle to comment on his alterations and improvements.
He was for doing so, for settling the whole business there and then. Ocock, however, took the opposite view. Considering, said he, that the site chosen was far from the centre of the town, Mahony might safely postpone buying in the meanwhile. There had been no government land-sales of late, and all main-road frontages had still to come under the hammer.
"Speaking of prettiness reminds me of something that happened at the Races last week I forgot to tell you, at the time. There were two gentlemen there from Melbourne; and as Agnes Ocock went past, one of them said out loud: 'Gad! That's a lovely woman. Agnes heard it herself, and was most distressed. And the whole day, wherever she went, they kept their field-glasses on her. Mr.
As matters stood at present on Ballarat, said Ocock, the plainest house he could build would cost him eight hundred; and another couple of hundred would go in furnishing; while a saddle-horse might be put down at fifty pounds.
Once more he had let himself be hoodwinked; had written down the smooth civility it pleased Ocock to adopt towards him to respect and esteem. Now that the veil was torn, he saw how poor the lawyer's opinion of him actually was. And always had been. For a memory was struggling to emerge in him, setting strings in vibration. And suddenly there rose before him a picture of Ocock that time had dimmed.
After leaving John, he set about raising money for the extra fares and other unforeseen expenses: at the eleventh hour, Sarah informed him that their young brother Jerry had landed in Melbourne during Emma's illness, and had been hastily boarded out. Knowing no one else in the city, Mahony was forced, much as it went against the grain, to turn to Henry Ocock for assistance.
Tom Ocock raised his freckled face, from the chin of which sprouted some long fair hairs, and turned red. "Yes, it's me. Do you want to see 'En " at an open kick from his brother "Mr. Ocock?" "If you please." Informed by Grindle that the "Captain" was at liberty, Mahony passed to an inner room where he was waved to a chair.
He could now have banked two hundred and fifty pounds. But Ocock laughed him out of countenance even went so far as to pat him on the shoulder. On no account was he to think of selling. "Sit tight, doctor ... sit tight! Till I say the word." And Mahony reluctantly obeyed.
A sense of dismay invaded him while he listened to the lawyer tick off the obligations and responsibilities he was letting himself in for. A thousand pounds! He to run into debt for such a sum, who had never owed a farthing to anyone! He fell to doubting whether, after all, he had made choice of the easier way, and lapsed into a gloomy silence. Ocock on the other hand warmed to geniality.
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