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'Your very obedient, humble servant, GILES DANGERFIELD. The Brass Castle, Chapelizod, '2nd October, 1767. Then poor little Mrs. Sturk was breaking out into a delirium of gratitude. But he put his hand upon her arm kindly, and with a little bow and an emphasis, he said 'Pray, not a word, my dear Madam. Just write a line; and he slid his desk before her with a sheet of paper on it; 'and say Mr.
There, having declared himself to the magistrate and his companion, in that little chamber where Nutter was wont to transact his agency business, and where poor Sturk had told down his rent, guinea by guinea, with such a furious elation, on the morning but one before he received his death-blow, he heard, with such feelings as may be imagined, the magistrate read aloud, not only the full and clear information of Irons, but the equally distinct deposition of Doctor Sturk, and was made aware of the complete identification of the respectable and vivacious Paul Dangerfield with the dead and damned Charles Archer!
Sturk bethought her how little she had got from him, she heard the roll of his coach wheels whirling him back again to Dublin. I believe few doctors grow so accustomed to the ghastly eclaircissement as not very willingly to shirk it when they may.
And in your stupid arrogance, you blundering Irishman, you dare to libel me your superior in everything with his villainous name, and the imputation of his crimes to violate my house at the dead of night to pistol me upon my own floor and to carry me off by force, as you purpose, to a common gaol. Kill Dr. Sturk, indeed! Are you mad, Sir?
He was ushered up stairs and into that back drawing-room which we know so well. Sturk rose as he entered. 'Your most obedient, Mr. Dangerfield, said the doctor, with an anxious bow. 'Good-morning, Sir, said Dangerfield. 'I've got your note, and am here in consequence; what can I do? Sturk glanced at the door, to see it was shut, and then said 'Mr. Dangerfield, I've recollected a something.
And the surgeon and the grand vizier were soon deep in talk, and Sturk brightened up, and looked eager and sagacious, and important, and became very voluble and impressive, and, leaving his lady to her own devices, with her maid and children, he got to the other side of the street, where Nutter, with taciturn and black observation, saw them busy pointing with cane and finger, and talking briskly as they surveyed together Dick Fisher's and Tom Tresham's tenements, and the Salmon House; and then beheld them ascend the steps of Tresham's door, and overlook the wall on the other side toward the river, and point this way and that along the near bank, as it seemed to Nutter discussing detailed schemes of alteration and improvement.
'That I have, Sir. 'Well, you shall have the money, Sir, if you perform a simple operation. ''Tis not to hang him you want me? said the doctor, with a gloomy sneer. 'Hang him! ha, ha no, Sir, Doctor Sturk still lives, but insensible. He must be brought to consciousness, and speech.
Murdered my father, and married my grandmother? snarled Sturk, sneeringly, amused or affecting to be so, and striving to laugh at the daisies before his toes, as he trudged along, with his hands in his breeches' pockets. 'I have not a secret on earth, Sir.
And somehow Dangerfield looked a little bit queer himself, and he drank off two small glasses, such as folks then used in Ireland of Nantz; and setting down the glass, he mused 'A queer battle life is; ha, ha! Sturk laid low the wretched fool! Widow yes; children ay. Charles! Charles! if there be a reckoning after death, your score's an ugly one.
But well in health, what I'm certain shure he is, taken the law of Mary Matchwell bless the Mark to get her emprisind and Publickly wiped by the commin hangman. All which rhapsody conjured up a confused and dyspeptic dream, full of absurd and terrific images, which she could not well comprehend, except in so far as it seemed clear that some signal disaster had befallen Sturk.
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