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'Pardon me, my fair lady, answered the Counsellor, 'your avowed rigour alone has induced me to commit the solecism of eating a good supper in your presence; how shall I support your frowns without reinforcing my strength? Upon the same principle, and no other, I will ask permission to drink wine with you. 'This is the fashion of Utrecht also, I suppose, Mr. Pleydell?
'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!
There is the great Colonel Mannering from the Eastern Indies, a man of war from his birth upwards, but who is not the less a man of great erudition, considering his imperfect opportunities; and there is, moreover, the great advocate Mr. Pleydell, who is also a man of great erudition, but who descendeth to trifles unbeseeming thereof; and there is Mr.
Pleydell as a very erudite and fa- ce-ti-ous person. By degrees the rest of the party dropped off and left these three gentlemen together. Their conversation turned to Mrs. Bertram's settlements. 'Now what could drive it into the noddle of that old harridan, said Pleydell, 'to disinherit poor Lucy Bertram under pretence of settling her property on a boy who has been so long dead and gone?
Pleydell, said Dinmont, looking at his dreadnought coat, then at the handsome furniture of the room; 'I had maybe better gang some gate else, and leave ye till your cracks, I'm no just that weel put on.
'Certainly, said Conyngham, coming forward with a card in his hand. 'You could not have come to a better man. Sir John Pleydell read the card, and had himself in such control that his face hardly changed. His teeth closed over his lower lip for a second; then he rose. The perspiration stood out on his face- -the grey of his eyes seemed to have faded to the colour of ashes.
Pleydell, 'so far from considering your attendance as an intrusion, Mr. Glossin, I was never so pleased in my life to meet with you; especially as I think we should, at any rate, have had occasion to request the favour of your company in the course of the day.
Pleydell, said Glossin, with great composure, 'I presume, if you were my counsel, you would not advise me to answer upon the spur of the moment to a charge which the basest of mankind seem ready to establish by perjury. 'My advice, said the Counsellor, 'would be regulated by my opinion of your innocence or guilt.
SAMPSON'S APARTMENT. 'Prodigious, prodigious, pro-di-gi-ous! shouted the enraptured Dominie. Mr. Pleydell had left the party for some time; but he returned, according to promise, during the Christmas recess of the courts.
There is the great Colonel Mannering from the Eastern Indies, a man of war from his birth upwards, but who is not the less a man of great erudition, considering his imperfect opportunities; and there is, moreover, the great advocate Mr. Pleydell, who is also a man of great erudition, but who descendeth to trifles unbeseeming thereof; and there is Mr.
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