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Updated: June 6, 2025
Only in a certain china shop near Battersea Park Road was the tumult unregarded, for Mrs. Clover had fallen from her wonted health, her happy temper, and Minnie in good truth cared neither for the recreation nor the dangled prize. When Gammon and Polly met they talked no longer of Lord Polperro or Uncle Clover, but of words. "I've got it this time, Polly! I swear I've got it!
Lord Polperro said that he felt a sudden faintness and must take refreshment. Having drunk, he began to talk in a loud voice about his private affairs, addressing a stranger who sat by him and whom he took for Gammon. "I shall stay here. I shall certainly wait here for Greenacre. I can't run the risk of missing him to-night."
But Polly's letter began with an announcement which occasioned him the greatest surprise he had known since the identification of Clover with Lord Polperro. So completely did it engross and confuse his mind that not until some quarter of an hour elapsed could he think about the passage quoted above.
But the Englishman's tale of love was not to run smooth after all, for now another complication had arisen, and the very last one any sensible man would have expected! "Yes, M'sieur," said M. Polperro demurely, "it is all right! I had forgotten!
He crossed the street and walked up and down, keeping his eye on Lowndes Mansions. Before long the doctor came out and drove away. After much indecision Gammon again entered and knocked at the door of his noble friend. The housekeeper said that Lord Polperro was asking for him impatiently. But when he entered the sitting-room there lay his lordship on the sofa fast asleep.
"Then while you are harnessing your nag, I'll drop a line to the riding-officer at Polperro; and if after receipt of it he allows a single fishing-boat to leave the harbour, he'll be sorry that's all. Now, sir Eh? Why are you hesitating?" "Well, indeed, your reverence knows best; and if you force me to drive over to Squire Granville's, why then I must.
Granted the truth of scandalous rumour, which had such remarkable supports in facial characteristics, the present bearer of the title would be, in fact, half-brother to Francis Quodling. Again, it was discoverable that the Lord Polperro of to-day succeeded to the barony in the very year of Mrs. Clover's husband's second disappearance.
As a matter of fact, it's Lord Polperro." Gammon gazed fixedly at the young man. "Lord Polperro? By jorrocks!" "Know him, Mr. Gammon?" asked another of the clerks. "I know his name. All right, I'll wait."
Except to such men as steered the Cleopatra, to enter Polperro harbor amid darkness and wind was a task beyond their skill; and, knowing this, and seeing by her adversary's tactics the near possibility of defeat, the cruiser had resort to her guns, trying to cut away the Cleopatra's gear, and by that means compel her to heave-to.
He had left Lacville, and arranged to meet her in Paris the next day, in order that their names might not be coupled as would have certainly been the case if they had travelled together into Paris the next morning by M. Polperro and the good-natured, but rather vulgar Wachners.
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