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Answer, by messenger; I shall come to you the moment my father has finished his lecture. "Yours, "E.B." Algernon told Sedgett to wait while he dressed in evening uniform, and gave him a cigar to smoke. He wrote: "Dear Ned, Stop what? Of course, I suppose there's only one thing, and how can I stop it? What for? You ridiculous old boy! What a changeable old fellow you are! Off, to see what I can do.
At last, he was brought almost to sigh that he might see the man who had lent him the sovereign, and his wish was hardly formed, when Nicodemus Sedgett approached, waving a hat encircled by preposterous wooden figures, a trifle less lightly attired than the ladies of the ballet, and as bold in the matter of leg as the female fashion of the period.
Sedgett told this for truth, being instigated to boldness of invention by pertinacious inquiries, and the dignified sense which the whole story hung upon him. Mrs. Boulby, who, as a towering woman, despised Sedgett's weak frame, had been willing to listen till she perceived him to be but a man of fiction, and then she gave him a flat contradiction, having no esteem for his custom.
He remembered with pain Algernon's glance of savage humiliation upward, just before he turned to follow Sedgett into the cab; and considered that he ought in kindness to see him and make him comfortable by apologizing, as if he himself had no complaint to make. He resolved to do it when the opportunity should come. Meantime, what on earth brought them together?
"I won't let you nod at downright murder that's all," said Robert. "She Dahlia, take the hand of that creature!" "Why did she marry me?" thundered Sedgett. "There's one o' the wonders!" Robert rejoined. "Except that you're an amazingly clever hypocrite with women; and she was just half dead and had no will of her own; and some one set you to hunt her down. I tell you, Mr.
What was proved overnight was confirmed at dawn. Mr. Robert had his contrast in Sedgett's son, Nicodemus Sedgett, whose unlucky Christian name had assisted the wits of Warbeach in bestowing on him a darkly-luminous relationship.
Why pull the young gentleman off his horse? I'd ha' given pounds to be there!" "Pounds o' tallow candles don't amount to much," quoth Robert. "That's awful bad brandy at 'The Pilot," said Mr. Sedgett, venomously. "Were you drunk when you committed this assault?" Jonathan asked his son. "I drank afterwards," Robert replied. "'Pilot' brandy's poor consolation," remarked Mr. Sedgett.
"Nothing inside of me will, mother." "Doesn't she but never mind. I've no right to ask, Robert; and if I have curiosity, it's about last night, and why you should let villains escape. But there's no accounting for a man's notions; only, this I say, and I do say it, Nic Sedgett, he's at the bottom of any mischief brewed against you down here.
In her despair she encouraged Sedgett to visit her bar and parlour, and he became everywhere a most important man. By the help of Steeve Bilton, the Fairly huntsman, Sedgett was enabled to relate that there was a combination of the gentlemen against Robert, whose behaviour none could absolutely approve, save the landlady and jolly Butcher Billing, who stuck to him with a hearty blind faith.
"I can tell you," said Rhoda; "his name is Mr. Sedgett." "Mister !" Edward gave one hollow stave of laughter. "And you have seen him, and think him " "I know he is not a gentleman," said Rhoda. "He has been deeply good to my sister, and I thank him, and do respect him." "Deeply!" Edward echoed. He was prompted to betray and confess himself: courage failed.
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