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Updated: June 11, 2025
So you clap a stopper on yer muzzle, youngster, while I state the case. Here is Mrs Stoutley, my lords, ladies, and gentlemen, who says that climbin', an' gaugin', and glaciers is foolish and useless. We'll go in an' win on the last count, for if these things ain't useless, d'ee see, they can't be foolish. Well, the question is, `Guilty or not guilty?"
To this Mrs Stoutley protested very earnestly that the lady in question would not accept the loan on any consideration; that it must not be diverted from its destined use, but be honestly expended on silk-dresses and new bonnets.
"Why, doctor," replied Mrs Stoutley, with a faint smile; "you talk of me as if I were a bottle of physic or flat ginger-beer."
"Guilty!" replied Mrs Stoutley, with an amused smile. "Hear! hear!" from Slingsby. "Silence in the Court!" from Lewis. "I'm afraid," said the Professor, "that our forms of legal procedure are somewhat irregular." "Never mind that, Professor," said the Captain, "you go ahead an' prove the prisoner wrong. Take the wind out of her sails if 'ee can."
"Well, I don't understand it at all," said Mrs Stoutley, at the end of one of the Professor's most lucid expositions. We may remark, in passing, that the Professor, like many of his countrymen, was a good linguist and spoke English well. "Not understand it!" he exclaimed, with a slight elevation of his eyebrows.
"No doubt our ready cash is what our man-of-business calls `locked up, but that, you know, is only a matter of temporary inconvenience, and cannot last long." As Mrs Stoutley paused and hesitated, their visitor placed on the table a canvas bag, which, up to this point he had rested on one knee. "This bag," he said, "of nuggets, is a gift from Willum.
He also took particular care to draw the curtains of the bed close round her after she had been laid in it and then retired to allow her to be disrobed by Netta, who had been obtained from Mrs Stoutley on loan expressly for the occasion. Much of this care to prevent her seeing the place that day, however, was unnecessary.
His deadly shafts, too, were visibly quivering in the breasts of Lewis Stoutley, George Lawrence, and the mad artist. Particularly obvious were these shafts in the case of the last, who was addicted to gazing somewhat presumptuously on "lovely woman" in general, from what he styled an artistic point of view never from any other point of view; of course not.
Her son will prove her best attendant just now; but it may be as well that some one should sit up in this room, and look in now and then to see that the candle doesn't burn out, and that all is right. I will go now, and will make this my first visit in the morning." "Captain Wopper," said Lewis Stoutley, in a subdued voice, when Lawrence had left, "I won this ten-pound note to-night from Fred.
Come, we'll have a couple of porters and a chair to have you carried when you knock up." Notwithstanding the glowing prospects of ease and felicity thus opened up to her, Mrs Stoutley resolutely refused to go on this excursion, but she generously allowed Emma to go if so disposed.
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