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Robert Stapylton, who lived at Chelsea, in conjunction with John Malony and Edward Armstrong, two watermen, seized the person of Thomas Lewis, an African slave, in a dark night, and dragged him to a boat lying in the Thames; they then gagged him, and tied him with a cord, and rowed him down to a ship, and put him on board to be sold as a slave in Jamaica.
The banker was in business matters wonderfully shrewd, as divers transactions, since the signing of that half-forgotten contract whereby he was to furnish a certain number of mules for the Confederate service, strikingly attested: but he had rarely been out of the country wherein his mother bore him; and where another nabob might have dreamed of an earl, or even have soared aspiringly in imagination toward a marchioness-ship for his only child, old Stapylton retained unshaken faith in the dust-gathering creed of his youth.
I see the chaise is out; there's the reckoning, landlord." "O Lord! "Mr. Crauford, alias Dr. Stapylton." "Lord! Lord! to think of it, how shocking! What has he done?" "Swindled, I believe." "My eyes! And why, sir, did not you catch him when he was in the bar?" "Because then I should not have got paid for my journey to Dover. Shut the door, boy; first stage on to Canterbury."
"This portrait was painted early in life. Our kinsman was at that time, I believe, a person of rather frivolous tendencies. Yet he was not quite thirty when he first established his reputation by his monograph upon The Evolution of Marriage. And afterwards, just prior to his first meeting with Goethe, you will remember " "Oh, yes!" Miss Stapylton assented, hastily; "I remember perfectly.
To each of these in various fashions did Colonel Musgrave explain such reasons as, he variously explained, must seem to any gentleman sufficient cause for acting as he had done; but most candidly, and even with a touch of eloquence, to Roger Stapylton. "You are like your grandfather, sir, at times," the latter said, inconsequently enough, when the colonel had finished.
Stapylton. "Merciful Heaven!" cried the false doctor, as he read it, "my daughter is on a bed of death!" The landlord's look wore anxiety; the doctor seemed for a moment paralyzed by silent woe. He recovered, shook his head piteously, and ordered a post-chaise and four on to Canterbury without delay.
"You see, my Lord," Stapylton would say, pointing to a dark, dingy picture of a gentleman in a rich court dress, "you see, my Lord, it is not in a very good light, and it certainly is a very dark picture, by Hudson; all Hudson's pictures were dark.
But have you never cared for any woman, Olaf?" Precarious ground, this! His eyes were fixed upon her now. And hers, for doubtless sufficient reasons, were curiously intent upon anything in the universe rather than Rudolph Musgrave. "Yes," said he, with a little intake of the breath; "yes, I cared once." "And she cared?" asked Miss Stapylton. She happened, even now, not to be looking at him.
Stapylton Toad for a long time figured, magnificently engraved on a broad brass plate. There was nothing however, otherwise, in the appearance of the establishment, which indicated that Mr. Toad's progress was very rapid, or his professional career extraordinarily prosperous. In an outward office one solitary clerk was seen, oftener stirring his office fire than wasting his master's ink; and Mr.
A little, unknown man, who had been sitting at the bar for the last two hours sipping brandy and water, and who from his extreme taciturnity and quiet had been scarcely observed, now rose. "Landlord," said he, "do you know who that gentleman is?" "Why," quoth Boniface, "the letter to him was directed, 'For the Rev. Dr. Stapylton; will be called for."
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