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To Uncle Ned, who was excluded from these simple pleasures, the excursion appeared hopeless from the first; and when a fresh perspective of darkness opened up, dimly contained between park palings on the one side and a hedge and ditch upon the other, the whole without the smallest signal of human habitation, the Squirradical drew up. 'This is a wild-goose chase, said he.
Now the Squirradical, like the vast majority of the more manly, had drawn knowledge at the wells of Cambridge he was wooden spoon in the year 1850; and the flag upon the houseboat streamed on the afternoon air with the colours of that seat of Toryism, that cradle of Puseyism, that home of the inexact and the effete Oxford. Still it was strangely like, thought Gideon.
"Poor boy, he is in dreadful straits." "What's this, Gid?" inquired the uncle. "Have you been fighting? or is it a bill?" These, in the opinion of the Squirradical, were the two misfortunes incident to gentlemen; and indeed both were culled from his own career. Bloomfield and the oaken staff. Mr.
'It is highly undesirable he should see us together; and really, do you know, I am very much obliged to him, for this is about the luckiest thing that could have possibly occurred. It seems to me Uncle Ned, I declare to heaven it seems to me I'm clear of it! 'Clear of what? asked the Squirradical. 'The whole affair! cried Gideon.
'Caught! thought the Squirradical. England is supposed to be unmusical; but without dwelling on the patronage extended to the organ-grinder, without seeking to found any argument on the prevalence of the jew's trump, there is surely one instrument that may be said to be national in the fullest acceptance of the word. 'The thing becomes a trumpet, whence he blows'
There be also such folk as Stevenson calls "squirradicals" squires who say that "the land is the people's." Probably no advocate of promiscuity, and no squirradical, was present at the performances of The Promise of May.
It was a cheerful day for the Squirradical when Holtum was restored to his brewery. "It's much worse than that," said Gideon; "a combination of circumstances really providentially unjust a in fact, a syndicate of murderers seem to have perceived my latent ability to rid them of the traces of their crime. It's a legal study after all, you see!"
In fact, he would go as far as he could to meet the views of his uncle, the Squirradical. But there was one part of the programme that appeared independent of his will. How to get a brief? there was the question. And there was another and a worse. Suppose he got one, should he prove the better man? Suddenly he found his way barred by a crowd.
'You will be watched; you must keep away from us. Nor had the barrister ventured to contest this strange illusion; for he feared if he rubbed off any of the romance, that Mr Bloomfield might weary of the whole affair. And his discretion was rewarded; for the Squirradical, laying a heavy hand upon his nephew's shoulder, had added these notable expressions: 'I see what you are after, Gid.
'I will swear to it in any court it was the hand of that brute that struck me down, he was reported to have said; and when he was thought to be sinking, it was known that he had made an ante-mortem statement in that sense. It was a cheerful day for the Squirradical when Holtum was restored to his brewery.
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