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And when he was questioned farther, he described the wagon and horses, and the man and the woman, so accurately that the authorities thought it worth while to take the description down; and old Purley has it in his pocket along with the warrant. And then, as I told you, the bailiffs all resigned rather than go after you; and old Purley had to be appointed.
"Blast 'em! they've had the impudence to escape right through my door! and right over my body!" panted Purley. "Then you can't blame me!" naively put in Munson. "Who says I can?" angrily demanded Purley. "I can't blame anybody! And how the demon they managed to pick the lock and open the door, and climb over me, I don't know! Nor have we time to inquire!" "Take your bitters, Mr.
"Well, him and her is in there?" "Are you sure?" inquired Purley, anxiously. "Here I is, Marster! If him and her ar'n't in there, here I is in your power, and you may skin me alive!" "All right!" exclaimed Purley, and dismounting from his horse, he advanced towards the thicket, followed by Munson and the negro boy.
"Yes, sir," answered the young bailiff starting off with alacrity, while the elder remained on guard at the door of his charge. In five minutes or less time, Munson returned with a quart measure of the "home-brewed," which he handed to Purley. "Souls and bodies! but it is bitter, sure enough! I have heard of bitter beer, but this beats all for bitterness that ever I tasted!
Diversions of Purley , i. 12, 131. Ibid. ii. 362. Locke's work, says Prof. Max Müller in his Science of Thought, p. 295, 'is, as Lange in his History of Materialism rightly perceived, a critique of language which, together with Kant's Critique of the Pure Reason, forms the starting-point of modern philosophy. See Lange's Materialism, , i. 271. Ibid. i. 49. Diversions of Purley, i. 36, 42.
And as soon as breakfast was over, they all reëntered the wagon and resumed their journey. They travelled twenty miles before stopping to dine at a lonely roadside tavern, where again Purley watched his charge with such vigilance that she had no opportunity to speak privately either to her husband or their friend.
He paused a moment and then added: "As a matter of fact, I think we may just as well go down later in the day. I have some writing to do, and I think you told me, Rupert, that you thought of going to the Dulwich Gallery. I was rather too impetuous. Very likely he wouldn't be in. But if we get down by the 5.15, which gets to Purley about 6, I expect we shall just catch him."
"To be sure there's the 'Running Horse," said his father, "just beyond Purley on the Brighton Road a coaching-house, wi' plenty o' custom, what d' ye think o' the 'Running Horse'?" "Any one you choose, father, but " "Then there's the 'Sun in the Sands' on Shooter's Hill a fine inn an' not to be sneezed at, Barnabas we might take that." "Just as you wish, father, only "
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