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They brought him to an end of everything, and, as Starkey said, he had been glad enough to take the employment which was offered without any inconvenient inquiries. The work which he undertook he did competently and honestly for some time without a grumble.
But some licence on the part of the disorderly gentlemen who surrounded King James in his exile, had insulted his beautiful wife, and disgusted him; so he removed from St. Germains to Antwerp, whence, in a few years' time, he quietly returned to Starkey Manor-House some of his Lancashire neighbours having lent their good offices to reconcile him to the powers that were.
Madly sped the latter to the elevator, but, finding Starkey and his crestfallen friend awaiting him there, he turned and dashed down the stairway, his ex-witnesses after him. For a moment there was silence in the office, while Allison recovered breath. Bowing coldly to him, Colonel Kenyon, with Cranston and Forrest, turned to leave the room. "Mr.
But Sir Philip was the first to continue: 'I must have no talk of ducking her, Dickon. Why, she must be the very woman poor Starkey bade me have a care of; but when I came here last she was gone, no one knew where. I'll go and see her tomorrow.
Madam, as the country-folk used to call Mrs. Starkey, rode on a pillion behind her husband, holding on to him with a light hand by his leather riding-belt.
Starkey, to make myself something so that my daughters and my sons-in-law would never feel ashamed of me so that their children won't be afraid to talk of their grandfather. I know it's a very bold thought, sir, but if I could 'Speak, Mr. Wigmore, cried Topham, quivering with curiosity, 'speak more plainly. What do you wish to become?
Fifteen paid the penalty for their crimes that night; but two reached the shore: Starkey to be captured by the redskins, who made him nurse for all their papooses, a melancholy come-down for a pirate; and Smee, who henceforth wandered about the world in his spectacles, making a precarious living by saying he was the only man that Jas. Hook had feared.
Indeed, when Madam Starkey had gotten her a situation with some grand lady abroad, and the time drew near for her to go, it was Mary who clung to her mother with passionate embrace, and, with floods of tears, declared that she would never leave her; and it was Bridget, who at last loosened her arms, and, grave and tearless herself, bade her keep her word, and go forth into the wide world.
Mr. Starkey, a young gentleman with the biceps of a prize-fighter and a head of curly hair that would have done credit to Antinous, came forth in due course and shook Spargo by the hand until his teeth rattled. "Had we known you were coming," said Mr. Starkey, "we'd have had a brass band on the stairs." "I want to come in," remarked Spargo. "Sure!" said Mr. Starkey. "That's what you've come for."
He told how the idea had first come to him, how he had brooded upon it, how he had worked at elementary lesson-books, very secretly then how the sight of Starkey's advertisement had inspired him with hope. 'Just to get to be a curate that's all. I should never be worthy of being a vicar or a rector. I don't look so high as that, Mr. Starkey.
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