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The evidence of his cleverness was of the higher intuitive order, lying in his lady-patients' immovable conviction, and was unassailable by any objection except that their intuitions were opposed by others equally strong; each lady who saw medical truth in Wrench and "the strengthening treatment" regarding Toller and "the lowering system" as medical perdition.
The rocket was fired to re-assure her father; and Cristel was rowed to the mouth of the river, and safely received on board the yacht. When I had read the correspondence, we spoke again of Cristel. "To save time," Mrs. Stephen Toller said, "I will write to my husband to-day, by a mounted messenger.
"Pooh! They're all right; that scalawag's half-way to Six-Cross-Roads by this time, isn't he, William?" "He tuck up the fence like a scared rabbit," Mr. Todd responded, looking into his hat to avoid meeting the eyes of the lady. "I didn't have no call to toller, and he knowed how to run, I reckon. Time Mr.
During the trying time of his concealment and tending of Toller, "the Shepherd's" presence became more frequent, and Snarley's characterisation more precise. The belief that "the Shepherd" was "backing him up" gave Snarley a will of iron. When Mrs.
In his pocket was an eight-ounce bottle, containing a meagre sixpenn'orth of brandy for Shepherd Toller. Snarley fingered the bottle, and then, with quick resolution, withdrew his hand. "For the life o' me," he said, "I couldn't remember where I was. I felt as though the hillside were whirlin' round, carryin' me with it. And then I felt as though I were sinkin' into the ground.
A brown dog, of the companionable retriever breed, ran in and fawned upon old Toller. Unlike the river and the cottage, she gained by being revealed in the brilliant sunlight. I now saw, in their full beauty, the luster of her brown eyes, the warm rosiness of her dark complexion, the delightful vivacity of expression which was the crowning charm of her face.
Thus it was continued: "That bit of torn paper I found under the bed, while I was secretly searching Mr. Toller's room. I had previously suspected You. From my own examination of his face, when he refused to humor my deafness by writing what I asked him to tell me, I suspected Mr. Toller next.
Feed my sheep. 'Well, I sez, 'when you wants me, you knows where to find me. 'Right, he sez; 'but it's Toller we'll be wantin' first. And I've been thinkin' as p'raps he'd oblige us by lettin' us have the loan of his dog for a bit. 'I'll go in and ask him, I sez; 'I don't suppose he'll have any objection. Then 'the Shepherd' blew his lantern out, and I see him no more that night.
I have pointed out what is the only probability," said Lydgate, impatiently. Then checking himself, he went on more quietly "I think I see one resource which would free us from a good deal of the present difficulty. I hear that young Ned Plymdale is going to be married to Miss Sophy Toller. They are rich, and it is not often that a good house is vacant in Middlemarch.
Miss Toller was away for nearly an hour; her search for a charwoman was unsuccessful, and she came back dejected. Helen rushed to meet her and they embraced one another. 'O Miss Toller, forgive me! When I saw you sitting with that Poulter and that Goacher, the Devil got the better of me, but 'Hush, my dear; I oughtn't to have gone, and never any more from this day call me Miss Toller.
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