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Sturk was absent; but the little file of children, on whom the neighbours looked with an awful and a tender curiosity, was there. Lord Townshend, too, was in the viceregal seat, with gentlemen of his household behind, splendid in star and peruke, and eyed over their prayer-books by many inquisitive Christians. Nutter's little pew, under the gallery, was void like Sturk's.
At this moment the door opened, and Doctor Dillon's carbuncled visage and glowing eyes appeared. 'Is there a steady woman there not a child, you know, Ma'am? Come in here, if you please, and we'll tell you what you're to do. So, being nothing loath, she made her courtesy and glided in. 'Oh! doctor, gasped poor Mrs. Sturk, holding by the hem of his garment, 'do you think it will kill him?
Sturk, who was thinking of other things beside the music, the angler walked round forthwith, and accosted that universal genius. Mrs. Sturk felt the doctor's arm, on which she leaned, vibrate for a second with a slight thrill an evidence in that hard, fibrous limb of what she used to call 'a start' and she heard Dangerfield's voice over his shoulder.
Sturk, and lounged, without ceremony, into the parlour; where he threw himself on the sofa, with one of his bony legs extended on it, and his great ugly hand under his wig scratching his head. The buzz of a village, like the hum of a city, represents a very wonderful variety of human accent and feeling.
The excitement was high in Chapelizod when the news reached that a true bill was found against Charles Archer for the murder of Barnabas Sturk.
Sturk stood, with his face and figure mottled over with the shadows of the moving leaves and the withered ones dropping about him, his hands in his pockets, and a crown-piece I believe it was his last available coin just then shut up fast and tight in his cold fingers, with his heart in his mouth, and whistling a little to show his unconcern. 'Well, said Sturk, 'he won't, of course?
In fact he brooded more, and was more savage at home than was at all agreeable. He used to go into town oftener, and to stay there later; and his language about Toole and Nutter, when there was none but submissive little Mrs. Sturk by, was more fierce and coarse than ever.
In fact, he had led her upon that particular theme, and as easily and cleverly kept her close to the subject. For he was not a general to manoeuvre without knowing first how the ground lay, and had an active, enquiring mind, in which he made all sorts of little notes. So Mrs. Sturk prattled on, to her own and Mr.
'I've done what I could, you know, to see my way through his affairs, and I've succeeded in keeping his creditors quiet. At this point poor Mrs. Sturk broke out 'Oh! may the Father of the fatherless, if such they are to be bless and reward oh oh ho ho, Mr. Dangerfield oh oh-oh Sir. 'Now, pray, Madam, oblige me and be tranquil.
He glanced up at Sturk's window it was a habit now so soon as he came in sight, but all looked as usual. So he mounted the steps, and asked to see Mrs. Sturk. 'My dear Madam, said he, after due courtesies interchanged, 'I've but a few minutes; my horse waits yonder at the Phoenix, and I'm away to town. How does your patient to-day?
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