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Algernon discerned his cabman and the conveyance ready, and beckoned him. "Perhaps, sir," said Sedgett, "if I might make so bold I don't want to speak o' them sovereigns but I've got to get back too, and cash is run low. D' ye mind, sir? Are you kind-hearted?" A constitutional habit of servility to his creditor when present before him signalized Algernon.
"That's right, gentlemen; I don't want to spile sport," said the donkey's man. "O' course you ends your Epsom-day with spirit." "There's sunset on their faces," said the cabman. "Would you try a by-lane, gentlemen?" But now the donkey's man had inspected the figures of the antagonistic couple. "Taint fair play," he said to Sedgett. "You leave that gentleman alone, you, sir?"
He and Sedgett, soon after, were driving down to Dahlia's poor lodgings in the West. On the way, an idea struck him: Would not Sedgett be a noisier claimant for the thousand than Edward? If he obeyed Edward's direction and stopped the marriage, he could hand back a goodly number of hundreds, and leave it to be supposed that he had advanced the remainder to Sedgett. How to do it?
You see, Missis, it ain't the tough ones last longest: he'd sing, 'I'm a Sea Booby, to the song, 'I'm a green Mermaid: poor Dick! 'a-shinin' upon the sea-deeps. He kept the liquor from his head, but didn't mean it to stop down in his leg." "Have you done, Mr. Sedgett?" said the widow, blandly. "You ain't angry, Missis?" "Not a bit, Mr.
Call at my chambers to-morrow." Another sovereign was transferred to him: but Sedgett would not be shaken off. "I just wanted t' have a bit of a talk with you," he spoke low. "Hang it! I haven't eaten all day," snapped the irritable young gentleman, fearful now of being seen in the rascal's company.
"What the devil have you got in you now?" Jonathan cried out to him. Mr. Sedgett was seized by his complaint and demanded commiseration, but, recovering, he chuckled again. "Oh, Bob Eccles! Don't you never grow older? And the first day down among us again, too. Why, Bob, as a military man, you ought to acknowledge your superiors.
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.
These melons of the farmer's, they're a wonderful invention; people are speaking of 'em right and left, and says, says they, Farmer Eccles, he's best farmer going Hampshire ought to be proud of him he's worth two of any others: that they are fine ones! And you're come back to keep 'em up, eh, Bob? Are ye, though, my man?" "Well, here I am, Mr. Sedgett," said Robert, "and talking to my father."
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.
A messenger ran up to the farm bearing a pencilled note to her from Robert, which said that he, in company with her uncle, was holding Sedgett at a distance by force of arm, and that there was no fear. Rhoda kissed the words, hurrying away to the fields for a few minutes to thank and bless and dream of him who had said that there was no fear.
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