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"Oh, he talks very quick, M. Henri; but he wouldn't let himself down to speak a word to me till I told him I was aide-de-camp-in-chief to the generalissimo of the Vendean army; and then he took off the greasy little cap he wears, told me that his name was Auguste Emile Septimus Plume, and said he was most desirous to drink a cup of wine with me in the next estaminet.
"You used not to be a miser," said Turner, panting on the stairs, when at last the bag was concealed in a safe place. "What matter what the value may be, so long as you like it?" "Oh! but the value is of great importance," answered Septimus, rather sheepishly. "Then you have changed a good deal since you and I were at Ipswich school together. There, sit down at this table.
It will be a jolly sight more useful than a marshal's baton! It will bring soothing comfort to millions of brave men! Why did I never think of it? I must go round to all the War Offices of the civilized globe. It's colossal. It makes your brain reel. Friend of Humanity? I shall be the Benefactor of the Human Race." "What will you have to drink?" asked Septimus. "Anything.
If he wished to live in Italy Buchanan should have given him the consulship of Leghorn or Venice. He looked on "Septimus Felton" as a failure, and thought that probably Hawthorne considered it so himself. He thought it not unlikely that Hawthorne would outlive every other writer of his time.
Septimus Small, drawing herself up with a creak and rustle of her whole person, said, shivering in her dignity: "My dear, it is a subject we do not talk about!" Although with her infallible instinct Mrs. Small had said the very thing to make her guest 'more intriguee than ever, it is difficult to see how else she could truthfully have spoken.
How does it strike you?" It struck Septimus as a remarkable suggestion, and he admired the lawyer exceedingly. "I suppose it's really a good and proper marriage?" he asked. The benevolent young man reassured him; it would take all the majesty of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty division of the High Court of Justice to dissolve it.
And there, with her face all round and pouting in its pink cap, and her eyes wet, she thought of 'dear Jolyon, so old and so lonely, and how she could be of some use to him; and how he would come to love her, as she had never been loved since since poor Septimus went away. Roger's house in Prince's Gardens was brilliantly alight.
Septimus asked desperately. "The yew tree in the garden," said Clovis. "There! I felt certain I'd dropped it somewhere. But you must have guessed something before. Look here, you have surprised my secret. You won't give me away, will you? It is nothing to be ashamed of, but it wouldn't do for the editor of the CATHEDRAL MONTHLY to go in openly for that sort of thing, would it?"
Six months later Septimus Marvin was called upon to give away his sister to a youthful brother officer of her late husband, which ceremony he performed with a sigh of relief audible in the farthest recess of the organ loft.
The Reverend Septimus stared, then suddenly sank to his knees and returned thanks in his simple fashion. "Don't let us be too certain, Anthony," he exclaimed at length. "There may be a mistake, or perhaps this is only a respite which will prolong the suspense. Often such things happen to torment us; I mean that they are God's way of trying and purifying our poor sinful hearts."
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