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Captain Scarsdale would have sent home the information he had received, and placed the cause of the boy in proper hands; but the men having disappeared, he was afraid to trust the document to a stranger, with the numberless chances of a long sea voyage, against its ever reaching its destination. Unexpected events, however, kept him out in the South Seas far longer than he had anticipated.
Scarsdale is gone now, sir, and is where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest; and I thought then, when we saw him, here would be a place for an old fellow when his career was over, to hang his sword up; to humble his soul, and to wait thankfully for the end. Arthur.
Mazarine at the house of Mr. Doyle last evening between the hours of eight and ten o'clock. To- day at noon also I visited her. She has a slight illness, and is not fit to take part in these proceedings." At this point, Scarsdale, who had come upon Orlando and the dead man at the Cross Trails the night before, told his story. He did it with evident reluctance.
Taylor had put him in mind of his appearing pleased with the house. Politeness obliges us to appear pleased with a man's works when he is present. No man will be so ill bred as to question you. You may therefore pay compliments without saying what is not true. I should say to Lord Scarsdale of his large room, "My Lord, this is the most costly room that I ever saw;" which is true. Dr.
Then I managed to get on to the trail at the Metropole here. They recollected when I could describe the man; they also recollected the largeness of his tips. Then I traced my man to the Lion at Moreton Wells, where he had obviously gone to see Reginald Henson. From the Lion our friend went to the Royal at Scarsdale Sands, where he is staying at present." "Under the name of John Smith?"
Lady Scarsdale lamented that she might possibly offend near and dear connexions, who had interests in, the West Indies, by so doing; but that, conscious of no intention to offend these, and considering the duties of religion to be the first to be attended to, she should be pleased to become useful in so good a cause.
This charming actress, who was, during many years, the idol of all London, whose face caused the fatal broil in which Mountfort fell, and for which Lord Mohun was tried by the peers, and to whom the Earl of Scarsdale was said to have made honorable addresses, had conducted herself, in very trying circumstances, with extraordinary discretion. Congreve at length became her confidential friend.
He was picked up at sea by a Captain Scarsdale, who brought him up as his son." "Scarsdale! now you speak it, that's the name of the master of the vessel who took us off the raft, and from whose ship we ran. For many a long year I have not thought of it. Yes, Andrew Scarsdale; and the boy was called Rolf Morton the names come back to me as if I heard them but yesterday.
'Why, Madame, I asked, suddenly raising my head and looking her straight in the face, 'do you wish me to walk to Church Scarsdale so particularly to-day? She answered my steady look with a contracted gaze and an unpleasant frown. 'Wy do I? I do not understand a you; there is no particular day wat folly! Wy I like Church Scarsdale? Well, it is such pretty place. There is all! Wat leetle fool!
He felt the ground he had ascended crumbling under him, and his audience was the precipice. There is always some one to say the word which sums all up. Lord Scarsdale translated the impression of the assembly in one exclamation, "What is the monster doing here?" Gwynplaine stood up, dismayed and indignant, in a sort of final convulsion. He looked at them all fixedly. "What am I doing here?
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