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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!"
Slopperton, with a countenance from which all the carnation hues, save in one circular excrescence on the nasal member, that was left, like the last rose of summer, blooming alone, were faded into an aspect of miserable pallor.
An open harpsichord at one end of the room gave him an opportunity to make some remark upon music; and this introducing an eulogium on Lucy's voice from Mrs. Slopperton, necessarily ended in a request to Miss Brandon to indulge the stranger with a song.
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!
"So far as I recollect, Mr Cutts, you nearly finished that business. But I want to have a serious talk with you about other matters. What has become of that confounded Slopperton Valley, for which you were engineer?" "Slopperton Valley! Haven't you heard about it? The whole concern was wound up about three weeks ago. Take a glass of wine." "Wound up? Why, this is most extraordinary.
Slopperton, despite her prepossessions in favour of her husband's deliverer, did not for a moment contemplate his accompanying, without any other attendance, her young friend across the fields at that unseasonable hour, the stranger was forced, for the present, to re-assume his seat.
"To tell you the truth, nothing can give me greater pleasure than to meet those again who have once obliged me." "Whom you have obliged, rather!" cried Mrs. Slopperton; and then added, in a loud whisper to Lucy, "How modest! but it is always so with true courage!"
Slopperton, despite her prepossessions in favour of her husband's deliverer, did not for a moment contemplate his accompanying, without any other attendance, her young friend across the fields at that unseasonable hour, the stranger was forced, for the present, to re-assume his seat.
"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."
An open harpsichord at one end of the room gave him an opportunity to make some remark upon music; and this introducing an eulogium on Lucy's voice from Mrs. Slopperton, necessarily ended in a request to Miss Brandon to indulge the stranger with a song.
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