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'You are quite right, they are barrels, she said, in an emphatic tone of candour that was not without a touch of irony. Stockdale looked at her with an eye of sudden misgiving. 'Not smugglers' liquor? he said. 'Yes, said she. 'They are tubs of spirit that have accidentally come over in the dark from France.
"The mail's just in." "Mail from Capetown?" "Yes." Ezra quickened his pace and strode down Stockdale Street into the Main Street, which, as the name implies, is the chief thoroughfare of Kimberley. He came out close to the office of the Vaal River Advertiser and Diamond Field Gazette. There was a crowd in front of the door.
She knew from the words 'Mrs. Newberry' that the division between them had widened yet another degree. 'I am not going home, she said. 'I have a little thing to do before I go in. Martha Sarah will get your tea. 'O, I don't mean on that account, said Stockdale. 'What can you have to do further in this unhallowed affair? 'Only a little, she said. 'What is that? I'll go with you.
Women and children stood at the doors as the carts, each chalked with the Government pitchfork, passed in the increasing twilight; and as they stood they looked at the confiscated property with a melancholy expression that told only too plainly the relation which they bore to the trade. 'Well, Lizzy, said Stockdale, when the crackle of the wheels had nearly died away.
This mild coquetry was perhaps fair enough under the circumstances of their being so closely lodged, and Stockdale put up with it as philosophically as he was able. Being in her own house, she could, after vexing him or disappointing him of her presence, easily win him back by suddenly surrounding him with those little attentions which her position as his landlady put it in her power to bestow.
Stockdale, the publisher, was so much impressed by his surroundings that he bid L400 for the book, and the agreement was signed and sealed under Lord Castlereagh's eye. The Missionary was not so successful as The Wild Irish Girl, and added nothing to the author's reputation. It was not until the end of 1810 that Miss Owenson decided to become a permanent member of the Abercorn household.
No; when my two years of probation are finished, I shall have a furnished house to live in, with a varnished door and a brass knocker; and I'll march straight back to her, and ask her flat, as soon as the last plate is on the dresser! Thus a titillating fortnight was passed by young Stockdale, during which time things proceeded much as such matters have done ever since the beginning of history.
But, in spite of attempts on both sides, they were unable to infuse much spirit into the ramble. She looked rather paler than usual, and sometimes turned her head away. 'Lizzy, said Stockdale reproachfully, when they had walked in silence a long distance. 'Yes, said she.
In a moment the keel gently touched the shingle, and Stockdale heard the footsteps of the thirty-six carriers running forwards over the pebbles towards the point of landing.
'Ah, that may be a promising sign: I'll call. Or no; just you go up and ask first if she can find room for me. I have to see one or two persons on another matter. You will find me down at the carrier's. In a quarter of an hour the lad came back, and said that Mrs. Newberry would have no objection to accommodate him, whereupon Stockdale called at the house.
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