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O Squire, if you had taken my advice about the stocks, 'quieta non movere'!" "Bother!" said the squire. "I suppose I am to be held up as a tyrant, a Nero, a Richard the Third, or a Grand Inquisitor, merely for having things smart and tidy! Stocks indeed! Your friend Rickeybockey said he was never more comfortable in his life, quite enjoyed sitting there. But 't is no use talking!
Hazeldean that Frank was in love with Violante Rickeybockey?" "I! Never, sir! I feared, on the contrary, that he was somewhat enamoured of a very different person. I hinted at that possibility. I could not do more, for I did not know how far Frank's affections were seriously engaged. And indeed, sir, Mrs.
Please to speak plainly, ma'am." Mrs. "It was of Mounseer, as you call him, that I spoke, Mr. Hazeldean." SQUIRE. "What! Rickeybockey?" "Signor Riccabocca." "Are we playing at whist, or are we not?" The squire, who is fourth player, drops the king to Captain Higginbotham's lead of the ace of hearts.
"Worshipping idols, and roasting people who don't worship them." "Signor Riccabocca is not so bad as that." "Rickeybockey! Well, if it was his daughter! But not speak English! and not go to the parish church! By George, if Frank thought of such a thing, I'd cut him off with a shilling. Don't talk to me, sir; I would. I 'm a mild man, and an easy man; but when I say a thing, I say it, Mr. Leslie.
He is merely the passive agent in the affair, the unregarded cause of the general satisfaction. It was not Riccabocca himself that they approved and blessed, it was the gentleman in the white waistcoat who had made Miss Jemima Madam Rickeybockey!
Hazeldean will forgive him if he is only a doctor probably of Laws and not, as most foreigners pretend to be, a marquis or a baron at least." "As to that," cried the squire, "It is the best thing I know about Rickeybockey that he don't attempt to humbug us by any such foreign trumpery.
"I don't think that would be like Riccabocca; more like him to run away in order to deprive Frank of the best of all occasions to court Violante, if he so desired; for where could he see more of her than at the Casino?" SQUIRE. "That's well put. Considering he was only a foreign doctor, and, for aught we know, once went about in a caravan, he is a gentleman-like fellow, that Rickeybockey.
The squire gets up to stretch his legs, and, the insinuation against his hospitality recurring to his thoughts, calls out to his wife, "Write to Rickeybockey to-morrow yourself, Harry, and ask him to come and spend two or three days here. There, Mrs. Dale, you hear me?" "Yes," said Mrs. Dale, putting her hands to her ears in implied rebuke at the loudness of the squire's tone.
Rickeybockey wants to have 'em, and sounded me as to the rent when he was at the Hall. I only half promised him the refusal. And he must give up four or five acres of the best land round the cottage to the widow just enough for her to manage and she can keep a dairy.
"Rickeybockey a duke? Why, Jemima's a duchess! Bless me, she is actually crying!" And his good heart prompted him to run to his cousin and cheer her up a bit. Violante glanced at Harley, and flung herself on her father's breast. Randal involuntarily rose, and moved to the duke's chair. "And you, Mr.
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