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I laid my hand on Rashleigh's collar, who made no resistance, but said, with a sort of scornful smile, "You hear him, MacGregor! he rushes on his fate will it be my fault if he falls into it? The warrants are by this time ready, and all is prepared." The Scotchman was obviously embarrassed.
I remained completely embarrassed; for it pressed on my recollection, that Rashleigh's communications, supposing them to be correct, ought to have rendered Miss Vernon rather an object of my compassion than of my pettish resentment; and had they furnished the best apology possible for my own conduct, still I must have had the utmost difficulty in detailing what inferred such necessary and natural offence to Miss Vernon's feelings.
"And yet," said Jobson, lingering as he moved towards the door, "if my presence here be necessary I could make out the warrant for committal in a moment, and the constable is below And you have heard," he said, lowering his voice, "Mr. Rashleigh's opinion" the rest was lost in a whisper.
And at the dinner-party Mollie was destined to receive a shock; for, just before they paired off to the dining-room, there entered a late guest, announced as the "Reverend Mr. Rashleigh," and, looking in the Reverend Mr. Rashleigh's face, Mollie Dane recognized him at once.
I had always been rather a favourite of the old gentleman; but it is probable that, confident in the number of gigantic youths who now armed around him, he considered the destination as likely to remain a dead letter, which he inserted chiefly to show his displeasure at Rashleigh's treachery, both public and domestic.
If I understand the nature of your distress rightly, the funds in Rashleigh's possession must be recovered by a certain day the 12th of September, I think is named in order that they may be applied to pay the bills in question; and, consequently, that if adequate funds be provided before that period, your father's credit is safe from the apprehended calamity." "Certainly I so understand Mr.
But as there are some poisons so active, that a few drops, it is said, will infect a whole fountain, so there is one falsehood in Rashleigh's communication, powerful enough to corrupt the whole well in which Truth herself is said to have dwelt.
"And yet," said Jobson, lingering as he moved towards the door, "if my presence here be necessary I could make out the warrant for committal in a moment, and the constable is below And you have heard," he said, lowering his voice, "Mr. Rashleigh's opinion" the rest was lost in a whisper.
"Oh, if you begin to investigate Rashleigh's motives, my finger touches my chin once more. I can only be frank where my own are inquired into. But to resume he has resigned the library in my favour, and never enters without leave had and obtained; and so I have taken the liberty to make it the place of deposit for some of my own goods and chattels, as you may see by looking round you."
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