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"I have heard of the packet and amulet from Doctor Hodges," said Thirlby, "and should have visited the piper on my recovery from the plague, but I was all impatience to behold Nizza, and could not brook an instant's delay. But you know his cottage. We cannot be far from it."
"I can anticipate some part of your communication," replied Leonard. "You will tell me you have a daughter still living." "You are inquisitive, young man," rejoined Thirlby, sternly. "You do me wrong, sir," replied Leonard. "I have no curiosity as regards yourself; and if I had, would never lower myself in my own estimation to gratify it.
When within a couple of yards of him, Thirlby paused, and having narrowly scrutinized his features, as if to satisfy himself he was not mistaken, again exclaimed, though in a lower and deeper tone than before, "It is he!" and seizing his arm, pushed him into the house, banging the door to after him in such a manner as to leave no doubt in the apprentice's mind that his presence was not desired.
The words were scarcely uttered, when Thirlby rushed into the room, and, flinging himself on his knees before the couch, cried, "At last I have found you my child! my child!"
Rawlinson, and undertake the Supplement to Wood . Think of it. In the other, 'I wish, Sir, you could obtain some fuller information of Jortin , Markland , and Thirlby . They were three contemporaries of great eminence. 'I heard yesterday of your late disorder , and should think ill of myself if I had heard of it without alarm.
Upon this, Thirlby hurried away, and leaping a hedge, disappeared from view. Leonard slowly and sorrowfully returned to Wood-street. On arriving there, he assured his master that he might with entire safety open his house, as he proposed, on the morrow; and Doctor Hodges, who visited the grocer the same evening, confirmed the opinion. Early, therefore, the next morning, Mr.
"To resume my own history," said Thirlby "after the dreadful catastrophe I have related, I remained concealed in London for some months, and was glad to find the report of my death generally believed. I then passed over into Holland, where I resided for several years, in the course of which time I married the widow of a rich merchant, who died soon after our union, leaving me one child."
"Which way did your master take?" "I did not observe," replied the porter, "but he told me he should cross London Bridge." "I will go into Southwark in quest of him," said Thirlby. "Every moment is of consequence now." "You had better stay where you are," replied the old porter. "It is the surest way to meet with him."
"On my return to England I communicated to him through Judith Malmayns, who is my foster-sister, that I was still alive, telling him the name I had adopted, and adding, I should never disturb him in the possession of his title and estates." "Ay, title!" echoed Thirlby. "The title I once bore was that of Lord Argentine."
This did not much surprise the apprentice, after the information he had received from Solomon Eagle, but Thirlby was greatly disappointed, and eagerly questioned the porter as to the probable time of his master's return. The man replied that it was quite uncertain, adding, "He has been in since you were last here, and has seen Blaize.
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