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"And if you contradict their lies, they're so savage at being put in the wrong that they'll blazon the lies all the more rather than confess them. That will do, Prindle! You can go." Prindle, aware that his employer was not a man to be argued with, at once retired, and Owlett, folding up the Will, handed it to Helmsley. "That's all right," he said, "I suppose you want to take it with you?
''Od drown it all! said Owlett, rushing back. 'It is worth a good deal, I suppose? said Stockdale. 'O no about two guineas and half to us now, said Lizzy excitedly. 'It isn't that it is the smell! It is so blazing strong before it has been lowered by water, that it smells dreadfully when spilt in the road like that! I do hope Latimer won't pass by till it is gone off.
They were all young fellows of Nether-Moynton, Chaldon, and the neighbourhood, quiet and inoffensive persons, who simply engaged to carry the cargo for Lizzy and her cousin Owlett, as they would have engaged in any other labour for which they were fairly well paid. At a word from her they closed in together. 'You had better take it now, she said to them; and handed to each a packet.
It's a more comfortable doctrine to believe that He is indifferent rather than observant. But, so far as I'm concerned, I don't go with the time." "No, I see you don't," and Mr. Owlett bent his attention anew on the Will "And the religious preliminary being quite unimportant, you shall have it your own way. Apart from that, you've drawn it up quite correctly, and in very good form.
You have nothing but your noses to guide ye, mind, so use 'em to-day if you never did in your lives before. Then the search began. Owlett, during the early part, watched from his mill-window, Lizzy from the door of her house, with the greatest self- possession.
Do you know, my man, that your name is the same as that of one of the richest men in the world?" Helmsley permitted himself to smile. "Really, sir? You don't say so!" "Yes, yes!" And Mr. Owlett fixed his spectacles on his nose and beamed at his humble client through them condescendingly "One of the richest men in the world!"
Some of the stronger men carried three by putting an extra one on the top behind, but the customary load was a pair, these being quite weighty enough to give their bearer the sensation of having chest and backbone in contact after a walk of four or five miles. 'Where is Owlett? said Lizzy to one of them. 'He will not come up this way, said the carrier.
While Owlett thus conversed, in a tone so full of contraband anxiety and so free from lover's jealousy, the men who followed him had been descending one by one from the hedge; and it unfortunately happened that when the hindmost took his leap, the cord slipped which sustained his tubs: the result was that both the kegs fell into the road, one of them being stove in by the blow.
'You please look to the linch-pins and screws; then go indoors and know nothing at all. The chaps will do the rest. The ladder was replaced, and all but Owlett descended, the men passing off one by one at the back of the church, and vanishing on their respective errands. Lizzy walked boldly along the street, followed closely by the minister. 'You are going indoors, Mrs. Newberry? he said.
'But I had been brought up to that life; and it was second nature to me. However, it is all over now. The officers have blood-money for taking a man dead or alive, and the trade is going to nothing. We were hunted down like rats. 'Owlett is quite gone, I hear. 'Yes. He is in America. We had a dreadful struggle that last time, when they tried to take him.
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