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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.
Is it your son, Nic Sedgett, thinks to inform against me, as once he swore to, and to get his wage that he may step out of a second bankruptcy? and he a farmer! You let him know that he isn't feared by me, Sedgett, and there's one here to give him a second dose, without waiting for him to use clasp-knives on harmless innocents."
My land gives and my land takes my money, and no drunken dog lives on the produce. A row in the hunting-field's un-English, I call it." "So it is, sir," said Robert. "So it be, neighbour," said Mr. Sedgett. Whereupon Robert took his arm, and holding the scraggy wretch forward, commanded him to out with what he knew. "Oh, I don't know no more than what I've told you." Mr.
Be off. If you follow me, I give you into custody of a policeman." "You durst n't." Sedgett eyed him warily. He could spy a physical weakness, by affinity of cowardice, as quickly as Algernon a moral weakness, by the same sort of relationship to it. "You don't dare," Sedgett pursued. "And why should you, sir? there's ne'er a reason why. I'm civil. I asks for my own: no more 'n my own, it ain't.
"What a brute you are, Sedgett, not to be at home when you brought me up to London with all the boxes and bedding my goodness! It's a Providence I caught you in my eye, or I should have been driving down to the docks, and seeing about the ship. You are a brute. Come in, at once." "If you're up to calling names, I've got one or two for you," Sedgett growled. Algernon had heard enough.
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.
She had more than once, I cannot tell you how distantly, conceived that the money had been money upon which the mildest word for "stolen" should be put to express the feeling she had got about it, after she had parted with the bulk of it to the man Sedgett. Not "stolen," not "appropriated," but money that had perhaps been entrusted, and of which Anthony had forgotten the rightful ownership.
Here's the pint: Is all square? Am I t' have the cash in cash counted down, I asks? And is it to be before, or is it to be after, the ceremony? There! bang out! say, yes or no." Algernon sent him to perdition with infinite heartiness, but he was dry, dispirited, and weak, and he walked on, Sedgett accompanying him.
And if she could do that, pity was wasted on her! So thought he: and so the world would think of the poor forlorn soul striving to expiate her fault, that her father and sister might be at peace, without shame. Algernon signified to Sedgett that the agreement was fixed and irrevocable on his part. Sedgett gulped some ale. "Hands on it," he said, and laid his huge hand open across the table.
He detested the man, but his feebleness was seized by the latter question, and he fancied he might, on the road to London, convey to Sedgett's mind that it would be well to split that thousand, as he had previously devised. "Jump in," he said. When Sedgett was seated, Algernon would have been glad to walk the distance to London to escape from the unwholesome proximity.
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