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Old Tom Towler, the whip, who had toiled at his calling for twenty long years on fifty pounds and what he could 'pick up, was advanced to a hundred and fifty, with a couple of men under him. Instead of riding worn-out, tumble-down, twenty-pound screws, he was mounted on hundred-guinea horses, for which the dealers were to have a couple of hundred, when they were paid.
'No, sir, answered Towler, briskly. 'Is it 'oller? 'Of course it's hollow. Surely your eye tells you that. 'Yes, sir; but there's the hot-water pipes inside and there's no getting at it, except for a plumber. 'Nonsense, said Mr.
'I can't tell you. I believe the servants are incapable of deceiving me. Towler, the attendant, comes to us with the highest character. 'Well, I will be on the alert while I am with you, said Mr. Jardine; and Ida felt as if he were a tower of strength. 'I have seen these sad cases, and had to do with them, only too often.
No one, to look at the little wizen'd old man in the loose dark frock, baggy striped waistcoat, and patent cord breeches, extending below where the calves of his bow legs ought to have been, would have supposed that it was the noted huntsman and dashing rider, Tom Towler, whose name was celebrated throughout the country.
Old Slocdolager, the late master of the hunt, had been in the habit of having Tom Towler, the huntsman, to his lodgings the night before hunting, where, over a glass of gin-and-water, they discussed the doings of the day, and the general arrangements of the country. Mr.
He had suspected the nature of Mr. Wendover's disease before now; but now he was certain of it. He went with Brian to his room, advising him to lie down and rest. Brian appearing consentient, Mr. Jardine left him, with Towler in attendance.
Brian had flung himself upon his bed, rolled in the damask curtain, like Henry Plantagenet, what time he went off into one of his fury-fits about Thomas Becket; and Mr. Jardine and Towler were able to talk confidentially at a respectful distance. 'Are you sure that he does not get brandy without your knowledge? 'No, sir, said Towler; 'that is what I am not sure about. It's a puzzling case.
That man who waits upon your husband is a nurse, I suppose? 'Yes. Dr. Mallison sent him. 'And care is taken that the patient gets no stimulants supplied to him? 'Every care and yet 'And yet what? 'I have a suspicion and I think Towler suspects too that Brian does get brandy somehow. 'But how can that be, if your servants are honest, and this attendant is to be depended upon?
'I don't think he'll be able to do much good when he does come, said Towler; 'doctors ain't in it with a case of this kind. If he don't go off into a good sleep by-and-by, I'm afraid this will be a fatal case. Mr. Jardine made no reply to this discouraging observation. There are times when speech is worse than useless.
Bud Towler got up and seconded the lot; the Chair was asked to put the names to immediate vote, as it was a charter meeting; all were carried, and Squeaks came forward and paid twenty-five dollars dues for the lot to cover the next ten weeks, that is, to the end of a year. Belle whispered to Hopkins as Squeaks retired. The Chair nodded, rose and explained.
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