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I knowed him for what he is directly I saw him. Ferreting about, that's his game; to see if there's anything to be got." "But what is he ferreting here for?" said Mr John Stringer. "I'm ferreting for Mr Soames's cheque for twenty pounds," said Mr Toogood. "That's the cheque that the parson stole," said Dan Stringer. "He's to be tried for it at the 'sizes."
"She has fled, as though from an enemy," he said, with a little attempt at a laugh; "but I will pursue her, and bring her back." "No, Crawley, no," said the lawyer. "She's a little upset, and all that kind of thing. We know what women are. Let her alone." "Nay, Mr Toogood; but then she would be angered with herself afterwards, and would lack the comfort of having spoken a word of gratitude.
Mistress Charity and Master Courage Toogood interrupted in the midst of their animated conversation were now speechless with terror, at sight of this black apparition, which, literally, had descended on them from the skies. "Lud love ye, Master Busy!" ejaculated Mistress Charity, who was the first to recognize in the sooty wraith the manly form of her betrothed, "where have ye come from, pray?"
And he would dine with his cousin Toogood in Tavistock Square. "One meets the queerest people in the world there," he said; "but Tommy Toogood is such a good fellow himself!" After that he had his lunch.
Mr Toogood was still of the opinion that with due diligence something might yet be learned as to the cheque by inquiry among the denizens of "The Dragon of Wantly"; and his opinion to this effect was stronger than ever when he learned from Mr Walker that the "Dragon of Wantly" belonged to Mrs Arabin.
It was part of a sum of money," with the rest of it. "I knew it would come out," said Mrs Walker. "I was quite sure of it." "But why the mischief didn't he say so?" said Walker. "He did say that he got it from the dean," said Toogood. "But he didn't get it from the dean; and the dean clearly knew nothing about it."
Mr Walker of course assured his host that he was delighted. "Just a leg of mutton and a bottle of old port, Mr Walker," continued Toogood. "We never get beyond that in the way of dinner-giving; do we, Maria?" But Maria was at this moment descanting on the good luck of the family to her nephew, and on one special piece of good luck which had just occurred.
He stooped a good deal, and his black clothes were very loose about his shrunken limbs. He was not decrepit, nor did he seem to be one who had advanced to extreme old age; but yet he shuffled rather than walked, hardly raising his feet from the ground. Mr Toogood, as he came forward to meet him, thought that he had never seen a sweeter face.
Master Toogood tried not to think of ghosts, nor of the many stories of pixies and goblins which are said to take a malicious pleasure in the timorousness of mankind, but of a truth he nearly uttered a cry of terror, and would have fallen on his knees in the mud, when a dark object quite undistinguishable in the gloom suddenly loomed before him.
I am a poor man, and cannot pay you for your services." "Oh, bother!" said Mr Toogood, jumping up out of his chair. "I do not know whether your charity will grant me that which I ask " "Don't let's have any more of this," said the attorney. "We none of us like this kind of thing at all.
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