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Raikes had in no instance, to his knowledge, been absent during office hours since his return from his annual holiday in September. I was confounded. The chairman turned to me with a smile, in which a shade of covert annoyance was scarcely apparent. "You hear, Mr. Langford?" he said. "I hear, sir; but my conviction remains unshaken." "I fear, Mr.
Great irresolution was displayed at the injunction, but having consulted the face of Mr. Raikes, one fellow, evidently half overcome by what was put upon him, with the steps of Adam into exile, descended to the gravel, and laid his hand on the donkey's head. 'Hold hard! cried Old Tom. 'Whisper in his ear. He'll know your language.
'May I have the felicity of assisting you to terra firma? interposed Mr. Raikes, with the bow of deferential familiarity. 'Done that once too often, returned Old Tom, jumping out. 'There. What's the fee? There's a crown for you that ain't afraid of a live donkey; and there 's a sixpenny bit for you that are to keep up your courage; and when he's dead you shall have his skin to shave by.
Last I saw of him was at the opening of 'The Outsider' at the Astor. That's a couple of months ago." "He's been traveling in Europe, I believe," said Raikes. "Lucky beggar to be able to. I wish I could." Sutton knocked the ash off his cigar. "I envy Jimmy," he said. "I don't know anyone I'd rather be. He's got much more money than any man except a professional 'plute' has any right to.
Footmen were stirring about the house, and one meeting Evan close by his door, observed with demure grin, that he could not find the gentleman's nether- garments. The gentleman, it appeared, was Mr. John Raikes, who according to report, had been furnished with a bed at the house, because of a discovery, made at a late period over-night, that farther the gentleman could not go.
But he says that I had begun with the life the worst wrote of them all. We shall sit, I believe, till about the 11th of next month. John says, in regard to the East India business, we are now all afloat. It is a recommencer. Mr. Raikes has sent to me this morning to know how George does.
But they are both unusually proud, and their pride held them inexorably apart. He drifted into an entanglement with Mrs. Raikes, and she deliberately cultivated the friendship of Dr. Bauerstein. Do you remember the day of John Cavendish's arrest, when you found me deliberating over a big decision?" "Yes, I quite understood your distress."
Raikes for a loss that evidently afflicted him still. Now, it must be told that the lady's-maid of Mrs. An arrangement which left her upwards of twelve hours' liberty, seemed highly proper to Maria Conning, this lady's-maid, a very demure young person. She was at her bed-room window, as Evan passed up the courtyard of the inn, and recognized him immediately.
His gaiety presently forsook him as quickly as it had come. Instead of remonstrating at Evan's restlessness, it was he who now dragged Evan from spot to spot. He spoke low and nervously. 'We're watched ! There was indeed a man lurking near and moving as they moved, with a speculative air. Writs were out against Raikes. He slipped from his friend, saying: 'Never mind me.
Worthier inasmuch as he gave him credence for existing long ere he knew of him and beheld him manifest. Raikes retreated to the vacant parlour of the Green Dragon, and there Evan found him staring at the unfolded letter, his head between his cramped fists, with a contraction of his mouth.
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