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She heard the striking of a match, and the pleasant twang of cigar-smoke greeted her nostrils. The two men seemed splendidly masculine, important, self-sufficient. The triviality of feminine atoms like herself, Rose, and Millicent, occurred to her almost as a new fact, and she was ashamed of her existence. 'Buying much this trip? asked Stanway. 'Not much, and not your sort, said Twemlow.
'My dear Twemlow, says Veneering, grasping both his hands, as the dearest and oldest of my friends Are you of opinion that your cousin, Lord Snigsworth, would give his name as a Member of my Committee? I don't go so far as to ask for his lordship; I only ask for his name. Do you think he would give me his name? In sudden low spirits, Twemlow replies, 'I don't think he would.
If 'a spreadeth that over the face of Squire Carne, 'a will ravish him, as the wicked doth ravish the poor." Twemlow had many sad things to consider, and among them the impending loss of this grand mane.
Why should they not return on the very day when Leonora and Milly were to go to London and keep house at Hillport during Leonora's absence? Such was the brilliant idea, one of those domestic ideas whose manifold excellences call for interminable explanation and discussion. The name of Arthur Twemlow was not again mentioned.
The intangible and shapeless suspicions which Ethel had caught from Leonora took a misty form and substance, only to be immediately dispelled in that inconstant mind by the sudden refreshing sound of Milly's voice: 'We've called to take Ethel home, papa oh, mother, here's Mr. Twemlow!
Carne made a rush to pass, but Twemlow caught him by the breast, and held him. "Come back," he said, fiercely, "and prove your words. Without that, you go no further." Carne seized him by the throat, but his mighty beard, like a collar of hemp, protected him, and he brought his big brown fist like a hammer upon the traitor's forehead.
Try to connect your ideas," he said, "and offer me the benefit another time. My horse is impatient; he may strike you with his foot." "If he does, I shall strike him upon the head," Mr. Twemlow replied, with his heavy stick ready. "It will be better for you to hear me out. Otherwise I shall procure a search-warrant, and myself examine your ruins, of which I know every crick and cranny.
Twemlow shook her head sometimes, when the arrangement of her hair permitted it, and doubted whether any of the Carne Castle Carnes would have borne with such indignity. "Prosecute him, prosecute him," this good lady always said. "You ought to have been a magistrate, Joshua the first magistrate in the Bible was that and then you would have known how to do things.
You have always been brought up as a gentleman, and never as a man of business; another touch of possible impertinence in this place; 'and perhaps you are but a poor man of business. What else is to be expected! 'I am even a poorer man of business than I am a man, sir, returned Twemlow, 'and I could hardly express my deficiency in a stronger way.
"Particulars now!" replied Twemlow, sternly, as he planted himself before his cousin. "For years I have lived among liars, and they called a lie Crom, and worshipped it. If this is not Crom, why did you bolt the door?" "You shall answer for this, when time allows. If the door was bolted, he must have done it. Let me pass; the last chance depends on my speed."
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