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"Here is the bill of exchange for two hundred and fifty pounds, to which you forged Sir Pleydell Tuffnell's name," said Marcus Mulhausen, spreading the paper before him. "That was two years ago. We all know Sir Pleydell and his easy going ways. He is so careless you thought he would never find out; so good, he would never prosecute.
'Aha! sits the wind there? Then I suppose the young dog carries off my mistress Julia? 'Even so, Counsellor. 'These rascals, the post-nati, get the better of us of the old school at every turn, said Mr. Pleydell. 'But she must convey and make over her interest in me to Lucy. 'To tell you the truth, I am afraid your flank will be turned there too, replied the Colonel. 'Indeed?
Pleydell," continued Lucy, "how much Miss Mannering and I were alarmed, when a ruffian, equally dreadful for his great strength, and the sternness of his features, rushed out upon us!" "You must know, Mr.
'And now, said Pleydell, 'make out warrants of commitment for Hatteraick and Glossin until liberated in due course of law. Yet, he said, 'I am sorry for Glossin. 'Now, I think, said Mannering, 'he's incomparably the least deserving of pity of the two. The other's a bold fellow, though as hard as flint.
He did not fall, but he noted nothing, and had no knowledge whither he was running. Alfred Pleydell lay quite still on the lawn in front of his father's house. 'Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. During the course of a harum-scarum youth in the city of Dublin certain persons had been known to predict that Mr. Frederick Conyngham had a future before him.
In the morning, while the Colonel and his most quiet and silent of all retainers, Dominie Sampson, were finishing the breakfast which Barnes had made and poured out, after the Dominie had scalded himself in the attempt, Mr. Pleydell was suddenly ushered in.
The scene which it exhibited, and particularly the attitude of the counsellor himself, the principal figure therein, struck his two clients with amazement. Mr. Pleydell was a lively, sharp-looking gentleman, with a professional shrewdness in his eye, and, generally speaking, a professional formality in his manners.
When she was gone, "I think I know the gipsy woman," said the lawyer. "I was just going to say the same," replied Mannering. "And her name " said Pleydell. "Is Meg Merrilies," answered the Colonel. "Are you avised of that?" said the counsellor, looking at his military friend with a comic expression of surprise.
Pleydell listened with great attention, and then replied, 'I congratulated myself upon having made the acquaintance of a profound theologian in your chaplain; but I really did not expect to find a pupil of Albumazar or Messahala in his patron. I have a notion, however, this gipsy could tell us some more of the matter than she derives from astrology or second-sight.
'Not to interrupt you, Mr. Glossin, said Pleydell, 'I ask who you say this young man is? His name is Godfrey Bertram Hewit, by which name he was entered on board the Royal Caroline excise yacht. 'Ay? said Pleydell, 'that is a very likely story!
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