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"Take these to Mr. Gering at once," he said. Effie followed this man with her eyes. The other clerks stared at her, expecting her to go. She looked at the one to whom she had first spoken. "Will you take my message to Mr. Gering?" she said. "Will you tell him that Effie Staunton George Staunton's sister wishes to see him on most important business?"
"The Jurisdiction Act," he said, "had nothing to do put with the rebels, and specially not with Argyle's country; and he would hang the men up all three in one row before coot Leddy Staunton's windows, which would be a great comfort to her in the morning to see that the coot gentleman, her husband, had been suitably afenged."
The book-shelf, however, was to Anne the most attractive object in the room; and whilst Helen was untying the strings of her portfolio, she went up to it. 'What a beautiful little Bishop Wilson! exclaimed she, taking out one of the books. 'Yes, said Helen with a sigh, 'that was dear Mrs. Staunton's last present to me before I left Dykelands.
They had exchanged a few sentences, of which the porter had only distinguished the one word "time." Then they had hurried off in the manner described. It was just half-past ten by the hall clock. "Let me see," said Holmes, seating himself on Staunton's bed. "You are the day porter, are you not?" "Yes, sir; I go off duty at eleven." "The night porter saw nothing, I suppose?"
Staunton used to say, replied Helen, 'that people always ought to keep up their connexion with their relations, whether they like them or not. There were some very stupid people, relations of Mr. Staunton's, near Dykelands, whom Fanny and Jane could not endure, but she used to ask them to dinner very often, and always made a point
Time was, when, if one man had Staunton's "Handbook," Sarratt, Philidor, Walker's "Thousand Games," and Lewis on "The Game of Chess," he was regarded as uniting the character of a chess-scholar with that of the antiquary. But now we hear of Bledow of Berlin with eight hundred volumes on chess; and Professor George Allen, of the University of Pennsylvania, with more than a thousand!
She knew just as well as Dr. Staunton did how precarious was Mrs. Staunton's tenure of life. She knew that a sudden shock might be fatal. Were those children to lose both parents? The doctor was going, no mortal aid now could avail for him, but must the mother also leave the children? "I do not know what to do," thought Dorothy. "She must see her husband they must meet.
At length silence and exhaustion succeeded to frenzy, and Jeanie stole out to take counsel with her husband, and to exhort him to anticipate the Captain's interference, by taking possession, in Lady Staunton's name, of the private papers of her deceased husband.
All unwitting of this surging tide of indignation in the heart of his witness the Crown Counsel summoned her to the stand. Mr. Staunton's manner was exceedingly affable. "Your name, Madam?" he enquired. "Me name is it?" replied the witness. "An' don't ye know me name as well as I do mesilf?" Mr. Staunton smiled pleasantly.
The ruffian's cupidity was excited by the intelligence, that a wealthy Englishman was coming to the Manse he had neither forgotten the Whistler's report of the gold he had seen in Lady Staunton's purse, nor his old vow of revenge against the minister; and, to bring the whole to a point, he conceived the hope of appropriating the money, which, according to the general report of the country, the minister was to bring from Edinburgh to pay for his pew purchase.
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