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"How so?" inquired the landlord, his eyes at their full stretch, his mouth agape, and his neglected pipe in his right hand. "Who, in the Fiend's name, are you?" "I am the only son and heir of Carew of Crompton," answered the young man, deliberately. "You? Why, Carew never had a son," exclaimed Trevethick, incredulously; "leastways, not a lawful one.
The impression which he left upon his audience, and desired to leave, was, that Carew was indebted to him for having saved his life. "Then it is likely the Squire would do any thing for you that you chose to ask him?" observed Trevethick, with the thought of his own debt to Solomon's father doubtless in his mind.
The padlock was like a little clock, except that it had the letters of the alphabet round its face instead of figures, and three hands instead of two; this latter circumstance insured, by its complication, the safety of the treasure, but at the same time rendered it useless unless he broke the box open to the possessor himself if by any accident he should forget the letter time at which he had set it; and accordingly Trevethick was accustomed to carry a memorandum of this about with him; even if he lost it, it would be no great matter, for what meaning would it convey to any human being to find a bit of paper with the letters B, N, Z upon it?
"Those sullen brutes, Trevethick and the other, would have my life, if they could. There is nothing that they would stick at, be assured of that and do you put Weasel on his guard to work my ruin. How could he be such a dolt as to let them be beforehand with him, when he himself said there was not an hour to be lost!" "Indeed, Richard, all was done for the best. One could scarcely expect Mr.
Those who were acquainted with his rash and impulsive character and reckless ways would understand that he had no serious intention of robbing Trevethick except, that is, of his daughter; even Trevethick himself must be aware of that; though, with that same exception before his eyes, it was more than doubtful whether he would acknowledge it.
This Trevethick was a hard and grasping man, and it was necessary for the young fellow to satisfy him that he was possessed of certain property before he would listen to any proposition for his daughter's hand.
He is angry, you see, even with Mr. Whymper, because he knows that his view of my case is such as I described to you. I confessed from the first that my interest at Crompton was a contingent one. You are treating me with great injustice, Mr. Trevethick." "What! Have you so much brass left as to say that?
They were not destroyed, but lay for weeks or months unopened, until the fancy seized him to examine their contents. He made, it was true, a gallant exception in the case of those whose superscription seemed to promise a lady correspondent; but that had not been the case with the communication from Trevethick, and hence the long interval that had elapsed before it was attended to.
"Then you never had any conversation with the prisoner with reference to your daughter at all?" "Never." Mr. Balais bent down and interchanged a word or two with Mr. Weasel behind him. "Now be so good as to give me your best attention, Mr. Trevethick, for upon my next question more may depend than you may be aware of.
"It certainly is not," interrupted Solomon, taking his pipe out of his mouth to intensify the positiveness of his position. "I say," continued Trevethick, reddening, "that down in Cornwall here there is scarce a mine without its spirit o' some sort.
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