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Slopperton, of Warlock, while I compassionately walked home with the old gentleman. Well, at the parson's house I met Miss Brandon mind, if I speak of her by name, you must not; and, by Heaven! But I won't swear. I accompanied her home. You know, before morning we robbed Lord Mauleverer; the affair made a noise, and I feared to endanger you all if I appeared in the vicinity of the robbery.
MacGrawler, and I trust they may continue with me to my dying day." Slopperton, betaking herself to its superintendence, inquired with more composure than hitherto had belonged to her demeanour, what sort of a looking creature the ruffian was. "I will tell you, my dear, I will tell you, Miss Lucy, all about it. I was walking home from Mr.
Slowforth's, with his money in my pocket, thinking, my love, of buying you that topaz cross you wished to have." "Dear, good man!" cried Mrs. Slopperton; "what a fiend it must have been to rob so excellent a creature!"
We used to sit for morning after morning over her accounts, debating for hours together the propriety of selling the Slopperton property; but no arrangement was come to yet about it, for Hodge and Smithers could not get the price she wanted. And, moreover, she vowed that at her decease she would leave every shilling to me.
When she arrived at the clerical mansion and entered the drawing-room, she was surprised to find the parson's wife, a good, homely, lethargic old lady, run up to her, seemingly in a state of great nervous agitation and crying, "Oh, my dear Miss Brandon! which way did you come? Did you meet nobody by the road? Oh, I am so frightened! Such an accident to poor dear Dr. Slopperton!
Hoggarty of Castle Hoggarty," said I, raising my voice; for I was a little proud of Castle Hoggarty. "She must be very rich to make such presents, Titmarsh?" "Why, thank you, sir," says I, "she is pretty well off. Four hundred a year jointure; a farm at Slopperton, sir; three houses at Squashtail; and three thousand two hundred loose cash at the banker's, as I happen to know, sir, that's all."
Hoggarty, delighted beyond measure, sent me back 10l. for my own pocket, and asked me if she had not better sell Slopperton and Squashtail, and invest all her money in this admirable concern. On this point I could not surely do better than ask the opinion of Mr. Brough. Mr.
And for the first time in her life Lucy made the discovery that eyes can praise as well as lips. For our part, we have often thought that that discovery is an epoch in life. It was now that Mrs. Slopperton declared her thorough conviction that the stranger himself could sing. He had that about him, she said, which made her sure of it.
"I fear, my respected host and my admired hostess, that I must now leave you; I have far to go." "But are you yourself not afraid of the highwaymen?" cried Mrs. Slopperton, interrupting him. "The highwaymen!" said the stranger, smiling; "no; I do not fear them; besides, I have little about me worth robbing."
Glancing towards Lucy, the stranger answered that he only knew one song of the kind Mrs. Slopperton specified, and it was so short that he could scarcely weary her patience by granting her request.
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