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'But, good Lord! said the sergeant, whiter than Woodhouse. 'It's Sir Thomas. 'Whoever it is, it isn't fit to be at large, said Woodhouse. The crowd suspecting something wrong began to reassemble, and all the English horror of a row in public moved us, headed by the sergeant, inside the lodge. We shut both park-gates and lodge-door. 'You saw the assault, sergeant, Woodhouse went on.
From the day she last saw her worthless lover she never went into society, and seldom, indeed, except at church, was seen outside the park-gates. Mr Castleton himself had become somewhat of an invalid, which made his temper even worse than before. He showed it especially whenever Mr Ranald was at home, and I am afraid that Mr Ralph often made matters worse instead of trying to mend them.
First, let me speak of his arrival—how I sat at my window, and watched for nearly two hours, before his carriage entered the park-gates—for they all came before him,—and how deeply I was disappointed at every arrival, because it was not his. First came Mr. Wilmot and the ladies.
The wind rose, the rain fell in a down-pour before they reached the park-gates; but there was a certain joy in facing the wet breeze, and although they did not loiter, yet neither did they hurry. In both their hearts there was a little fear of the squire, but neither spoke of it. Charlotte would not suppose or suggest any necessity for avoiding him, and Steve was equally sensitive on the subject.
I will try to get help for them elsewhere." Georgiana was pleased by Emilia's manner of taking the rebuff; but it required an altercation before she consented to this postponement; she nodded her head finally in anger. By the park-gates that evening, Wilfrid received a letter from the hands of Tracy Runningbrook. It said: "I am not able to see you now.
'And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think or feel? I asked myself. And my heart throbbed in answer to the question. But Jane and Susan Green soon reached their home. As they stood parleying at the park-gates, attempting to persuade Miss Murray to come in, I wished Mr.
Alas! there was little room for solace, and yet all that earnest affection could inspire, and a sagacious brain and a brave spirit, were offered for his support, if not his consolation, by the friend who was devoted to him. In the midst of this deep communion, teeming with every thought and sentiment that could enchain and absorb the spirit of man, they came to one of the park-gates of Coningsby.
"The dogs can't be brought out without servants to mind them! They're what you call gamekeepers." Morton was explaining that the men were not gamekeepers when Captain Glomax himself arrived, driving a tandem. There was no road up to the spot, but on hunt mornings, or at any rate when the meet was at the old kennels, the park-gates were open so that vehicles could come up on the green sward.
He is very proud of being Newcome of Newcome, and quite believes that the place is his hereditary principality. But still, he says, his father was a fool for ever representing the borough. "Dammy, sir," cries Sir Barnes, "never sit for a place that lies at your park-gates, and above all never try to conciliate 'em. Curse 'em! Hate 'em well, sir! Take a line, and flog the fellows on the other side.
The broad moonlight shining fall upon his face, revealed a dark, weather-beaten countenance the face of the tramp who had stood at the park-gates to watch the passing of Sir Oswald's funeral train the face of the tramp who had loitered in the stable-yard of the "Hen and Chickens" the face of the man who had been known in Ratcliff Highway by the ominous name of Black Milsom.
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