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She is to be married when her education is finished married, by the by, to a son of your old friend Jessop, of Ouzelford; and between you and me, Mr. Darrell, that is the reason why I consented to come to town. Do not suppose that I would have a daughter finished unless there was a husband at hand who undertook to be responsible for the results." "You retain your wisdom, Mr.
"I have seen Waife the one-eyed monster! Aha! I have seen him! and yesterday too; and a great comfort it was to me too!" "You saw Waife yesterday where?" "At Ouzelford, which I and the Faithful left this morning." "And what was he doing?" said Losely, with well-simulated indifference. "Begging, breaking stones, or what?"
He consoled himself a little for Waife's refusal of this kind invitation and unexpected departure, by walking proudly beside him to the station, finding it thronged with passengers some of them great burgesses of Ouzelford in whose presence he kept bowing his head to Waife with every word he uttered; and, calling the guard who was no stranger to his own name and importance he told him pompously to be particularly attentive to that elderly gentleman, and see that he and his companion had a carriage to themselves all the way, and that Sir Isaac had a particularly comfortable box.
At sunrise Losely found himself on the high-road into which a labyrinth of lanes had led him, and opposite to a milestone, by which he learned that he had been long turning his back on the metropolis, and that he was about ten miles distant from the provincial city of Ouzelford.
At length Darrell perceived, sitting aloof in a corner, an excellent man whom indeed it surprised him to see in a London drawing-room, but who, many years ago, when Darrell was canvassing the enlightened constituency of Ouzelford, had been on a visit to the chairman of his committee an influential trader and having connections in the town and, being a very high character, had done him good service in the canvass.
To screen, perhaps, some other man, he is telling you a noble lie. But what of him? Have you really seen him, and at Ouzelford?" "Yes." "When?" "Yesterday. I was in the City Reading-Room, looking out of the window. I saw a great white dog in the street below; I knew the dog at once, sir, though he is disguised by restoration to his natural coat, and his hair is as long as a Peruvian lama's.
George Morley!" "Mr. Hartopp! How are you, my dear sir? What brings you so far from home?" "I am on a visit to my daughter, Anna Maria. She has not been long married to young Jessop. Old Jessop is one of the principal merchants at Ouzelford very respectable worthy family.
The young couple are happily settled in a remarkably snug villa that is it with the portico, not a hundred yards behind us, to the right. Very handsome town, Ouzelford; you are bound to it, of course? we can walk together. I am going to look at the papers in the City Rooms very fine rooms they are. But you are straight from London, perhaps, and have seen the day's journals?
George, I should very much like to ask your advice on a matter which has been much on my mind the last twenty-four hours, and which concerns a person I contrived to discover at Ouzelford, though I certainly was not in search of him a person about whom you and I had a conversation a few years ago, when you were staying with your worthy father." "Eh?" said George, quickly; "whom do you speak of?"
In fact, I come to Ouzelford in the faint hope of discovering there a poor old friend of mine, of whom I have long been in search." "Perhaps the Jessops can help you; they know everybody at Ouzelford. But now I meet you thus by surprise, Mr.
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