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The excitement of feeling that I had got Armadale's future movements completely under my own control made me so restless, when I returned to my lodgings, that I was obliged to go out again, and do something. A new interest to occupy me being what I wanted, I went to Pimlico to have it out with Mother Oldershaw. "I walked; and made up my mind, on the way, that I would begin by quarreling with her.
When I visit some quiet churchyard, I often think how sweet a resting-place it would be after having been knocked about all one's life on the stormy ocean, and after having met with so many disappointments and sorrows." I do not know what induced Oldershaw to speak to me in that way, for in truth he was one of the happiest and most contented people on board, so it seemed to me.
A padlock was on the shop door; and a man was hanging about on the watch, who might have been an ordinary idler certainly, but who looked, to my mind, like a policeman in disguise. "Knowing the risks the doctor runs in his particular form of practice, I suspected at once that something serious had happened, and that even cunning Mrs. Oldershaw was compromised this time.
Oldershaw, on this, volunteered to carry them in the dinghy, and I begged that I might accompany him. "Well, look after the boy, and take care he gets into no mischief, Mr Oldershaw," said the Captain, "and he may then go." I was delighted. Toby Kiddle and Pat Brady offered to pull the boat, for, of course, she had no regular crew. Two other men also volunteered, and away we went.
I should say from the way he groaned, and an exclamation he uttered, I felt sure he was an Englishman. I ran up to him, "Who are you?" I asked. It was one of our men. "Is that you, Mr Burton?" he answered, in a faint voice. "It is going hard with us, for the ship was full of people and they are fighting well." Oldershaw, who just then came up, heard the words.
Be a merciful Mother Oldershaw, and spare me the worry of looking at the Ins and Outs, and adding up the chances For and Against, in this new venture of mine. Think for me, in short, until I am obliged to think for myself. "I had better not write any more, or I shall say something savage that you won't like. I am in one of my tempers to-night.
I have a friend now in London who will pay it if I ask him. Do you wonder who the friend is? You will wonder at one or two other things, Mrs. Oldershaw, before many weeks more are over your head and mine." On the morning of Monday, the 28th of July, Miss Gwilt once more on the watch for Allan and Neelie reached her customary post of observation in the park, by the usual roundabout way.
He didn't quite manage to hide the little quiver in his voice, and it came to Howard Oldershaw for the first time how young they both were to be floundering on the main road, himself with several entanglements and money worries, his friend married and with another complication.
As things are, I shall have the note presented; and, if it is not paid, I shall instruct my man of business to take the usual course. "Yours, MARIA OLDERSHAW." From Miss Gwilt to Mrs. Oldershaw. "5 Paradise Place, Thorpe Ambrose, July 25th. "MRS. OLDERSHAW The time of your man of business being, no doubt, of some value, I write a line to assist him when he takes the usual course.
At length the light from the window of the little inn, at the end of the lane where I purposed getting down, appeared in sight. Begging the coachman to stop, I wished Oldershaw good-bye, and descended from my perch on the roof. My chest and bag were handed down, and the coach drove on.
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