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"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.
He compressed a desire to dispute with Sedgett that latter point about the agreement, and opened Edward's letter. It contained an order on a firm of attorneys to sell out so much Bank Stock and pay over one thousand pounds to Mr. A. Blancove. The beautiful concision of style in this document gave Algernon a feeling of profound deference toward the law and its officers.
The people, I have said, are not so lost in self-contempt as to undervalue their best men, but it must be admitted that they rarely produce young fellows wearing the undeniable chieftain's stamp, and the rarity of one like Robert lent a hue of sadness to him in their thoughts. Fortune, moreover, the favourer of Nic Sedgett, blew foul whichever the way Robert set his sails.
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?
"The man's in your house, Mr. Fleming," he said. "And he's my guest, and my daughter's husband, remember that," said the farmer. "And mean to wait not half a minute longer till I've taken her off mark that," Sedgett struck in. "Now, Mr. Fleming, you see you keep good your word to me." "I'll do no less," said the farmer. He went into the passage shouting for Mrs. Sumfit to bring down the box.
How was it that a gentleman could consent to appear publicly with such a fellow? He decided that it meant something, and something ominous but what? Whom could it affect? Was Algernon Blancove such a poor creature that, feeling himself bound by certain dark dealings with Sedgett to keep him quiet, he permitted the bullying dog to hang to his coat-tail?
"Oh! I wouldn't be here to interrupt ye for the world." Mr. Sedgett made a show of retiring, but Jonathan insisted upon his disburdening himself of his tale, saying: "Damn your raw beginnings, Sedgett! What's been up? Nobody can hurt me." "That they can't, neighbour; nor Bob neither, as far as stand up man to man go. I give him three to one Bob Eccles! He took 'em when a boy.
"Oh! I wouldn't be here to interrupt ye for the world." Mr. Sedgett made a show of retiring, but Jonathan insisted upon his disburdening himself of his tale, saying: "Damn your raw beginnings, Sedgett! What's been up? Nobody can hurt me." "That they can't, neighbour; nor Bob neither, as far as stand up man to man go. I give him three to one Bob Eccles! He took 'em when a boy.
Edward Blancove credit for not meaning to be active in a dastardly assault. "But why was he in consultation with my enemy? And he let my enemy by the way, Percy, you dislike that sort of talk of 'my enemy, I know. You like it put plain and simple: but down in these old parts again, I catch at old habits; and I'm always a worse man when I haven't seen you for a time. Sedgett, say.
But when gossip Sedgett went his rounds, telling that Robert was down among them again upon the darkest expedition their minds could conceive, and rode out every morning for the purpose of encountering one of the gentlemen up at Fairly, and had already pulled him off his horse and laid him in the mud, calling him scoundrel and challenging him either to yield his secret or to fight; and that he followed him, and was out after him publicly, and matched himself against that gentleman, who had all the other gentlemen, and the earl, and the law to back him, the little place buzzed with wonder and alarm.
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