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But when she lifted the latch of the gate, a sensation, prompted by some unwitting self-accusal, struck her with alarm. She passed into the room, and beheld her father, and Mrs. Sumfit, who was sitting rolling, with her apron over her head. The man Sedgett was between them.
This was too much. "My word must satisfy you," said Algernon, rising. "So it shall. So it do," returned Sedgett, rising with him. "Will you give it in writing?" "I won't." "That's blunt. Will you come and have a look at a sparring-match in yond' brown booth, sir?" "I am going back to London." "London and the theayter that's the fun, now, ain't it!" Sedgett laughed.
He entered a booth, and partook of ale and ham, feeling that he was in the dregs of calamity. Though the ale did some service in reviving, it did not cheer him, and he had a fit of moral objection to Sedgett's discourse. Sedgett took his bluntness as a matter to be endured for the honour of hob-a-nobbing with a gentleman.
He scarce at the moment knew the man whose shoulder he seized, but he had recognised Dahlia and Rhoda, and he found himself face to face with Sedgett. "It's you!" "Perhaps you'll keep your hands off; before you make sure, another time." Robert said: "I really beg your pardon. Step aside with me."
This was too much. "My word must satisfy you," said Algernon, rising. "So it shall. So it do," returned Sedgett, rising with him. "Will you give it in writing?" "I won't." "That's blunt. Will you come and have a look at a sparring-match in yond' brown booth, sir?" "I am going back to London." "London and the theayter that's the fun, now, ain't it!" Sedgett laughed.
Sedgett replied, staring, that he was a Tory, and Algernon nodded again, but with brows perturbed at the thought of this ruffian being of the same political persuasion as himself. "Eh?" cried Sedgett; "I don't want any of your hustings pledges, though. You'll be at the door tomorrow, or I'll have a row mind that. A bargain's a bargain. I like the young woman, but I must have the money.
This continued until he saw a woman's hand waving from a cab. Presuming that such a signal, objectionable as it was, must be addressed to himself, he considered whether he should lift his hat, or simply smile as a favoured, but not too deeply flattered, man. The cab drew up, and the woman said, "Sedgett." She was a well-looking woman, strongly coloured, brown-eyed, and hearty in appearance.
To pinch himself and deserve well of Providence, he resolved not to drink wine, but beer, that day. He named the beverage; a pint-bottle of ale; and laughed, as a royal economist may, who punishes himself to please himself. "Mighty jolly, ain't it, sir?" said Sedgett, at his elbow.
Algernon had to check the impulse of his hand to stretch out to the fellow, so welcome was he: Sedgett stated that everything stood ready for the morrow. He had accomplished all that had to be done. "And it's more than many'd reckon," he said, and rubbed his hands, and laughed. "I was aboard ship in Liverpool this morning, that I was.
Robert perceived that Percy meant to fool him if he attempted a breach of the bond; but he longed so much for Percy's opinion of the strange alliance between Sedgett and Algernon Blancove, that at any cost he was compelled to say, "I can't get to the bottom of that." "That squabble in the road?" said Percy. "We shall see two or three more before we reach home." "No.
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