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"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.
Behind the figures, he calculated that, in all probability, Rhoda would visit her sister this night. "I can't stop that," he said: and hearing a clock strike, "nor that" a knock sounded on the door; "nor that." The reflection inspired him with fatalistic views. Sedgett appeared, and was welcome.
Boulby cruelly retorted; "I won't send you home to your wife;" which created a roar against this hen-pecked man. "As to consequences, Missis, it's for your sake I'm looking at them," Sedgett said, when he had recovered from the blow. "You say that to the Excise, Mr. Sedgett; it, belike, 'll make 'em sorry." "Brandy's your weak point, it appears, Missis."
"After all, if I stop in England," said he, "I can't afford to lose my position in society; anything's better than that an unmitigated low scoundrel like Sedgett should bag the game." Besides, is it not somewhat sceptical to suppose that when Fate decides, she has not weighed the scales, and decided for the best?
Sedgett has saved you from annoyance. Take him his five pounds." "Annoyance be hanged, my good Ned!" Algernon was aroused to reply. "I don't complain, and I've done my best to stand in front of you; and as you've settled the fellow, I say nothing; but, between us two, who's the guilty party, and who's the victim?" "Didn't he tell you he had you in his power?" "I don't remember that he did."
To which Sedgett answered bluffly, "There ye lie, Bob Eccles;" and he was immediately felled by a tremendous blow. Robert strode over him, and taking Dahlia by the elbow, walked three paces on, as to set her in motion. "Off!" he cried to Rhoda, whose eyelids cowered under the blaze of his face.
Edward's own practical judgement would have advised his instantly sending a short reply to Robert, explaining that he was simply in conversation with the man Sedgett, when Robert, the old enemy of the latter, rode by, and, that while regretting Sedgett's proceedings, he could not be held accountable for them. But it was useless to think of acting in accordance with his reason. Mrs.
Few words were required to make him understand the position of things in the house. Rhoda spoke out all without hesitation in Sedgett's hearing. But the farmer respected Robert enough to come down to him and explain his views of his duty and his daughter's duty. By the kitchen firelight he and Robert and Sedgett read one another's countenances.
"Who knows? Wait till the day's ended before you curse your luck." There was a foreign letter in it from Edward, addressed to him, and another addressed to "Mr. Blancuv," that he tore open and read with disgusted laughter. It was signed "N. Sedgett."
They're weak, poor sort o' things." The intolerable talk of the ruffian prompted Algernon to cry out, for relief, "A scoundrel like you must be past any good to be got from reading his Bible." Sedgett turned his dull brown eyes on him, the thick and hateful flush of evil blood informing them with detestable malignity. "Come; you be civil, if you're going to be my companion," he said.
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