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If any one man in the whole countryside bore a reputation of simple probity, it was Doctor Unonius. Impossible to connect him with tricks to defraud the Revenue! And yet had not the young riding-officer distinctly seen Landaveddy show and anon eclipse a light, and in such a fashion that it could only be interpreted as a signal.
While he stood by the bookcase, balancing his spectacles on his forefinger and Homer's words in his mind, Jenifer, his one small maid-servant, entered with word that Roger Olver was at the door with a message from Penalune. 'Show him in, said Doctor Unonius.
Doctor Unonius went to the window, drew the curtains, unbarred a shutter, and stared out into the night. A newly risen moon hung low in the south-east, just above the coping of the courtlage wall, but the wall with its shrubs and clumps of ivy, massed in blackest shadow, excluded all view of the terrestrial world. The sound, whatever it had been, was not repeated.
Somebody dreadful thought! might get himself severely bitten, mauled, mangled perhaps to death, merely by obeying a piece of pseudo-scientific advice. That he, Doctor Unonius, might never be reproached with the disaster, might never even hear of it, in no degree mitigated his responsibility.
The road led no whither but to Polpeor and the coast, and passed on its way no human habitation but Landeweddy Farm and a couple of cottages half a mile beyond it, close under the dip of the hill. . . . 'You are shivering, said Doctor Unonius, after a pause. The crouching figure nodded, but did not speak. 'Are you cold? Here, take some more of the rug.
Hang it, a Briton must be allowed his sporting instincts! 'By the same argument, no doubt, you would justify poaching? put in Sir John, with a twinkle. Mr Trelawny would by no means allow this. 'It would interest me, sir, to hear you define the moral difference between smuggling and poaching, said Doctor Unonius. 'I don't go in for definitions, sir, Mr Trelawny answered.
Whether from indolence or modesty Doctor Unonius never competed, but he seldom missed to visit the show and to con the exhibits.
Doctor Unonius stared at the paper, and from the paper lifted his eyes to stare at the black bulk of the farm-house buildings, the stretch of roof, the tall chimneys looming above the tamarisks. But the close rays of the lamp dazzled his eyes, and he saw nothing nothing but the white gate glimmering at the end of the courtlege wall.
A man's voice, the rider's, shouted some two or three words the doctor could not catch; but a moment later he heard the latch of the yard gate clink and horse and man lunge through, and had scarcely time to arm himself with one of the guns before three sharp strokes rattled on the back door. Doctor Unonius hurried out to the passage.
Altogether the widow's attire and array suggested that she had recently dismissed, or was even now expecting, company. 'Doctor Unonius? 'You may well be surprised, madam at this hour 'I did not send for you. To begin with, I have a pistol here and can, at the worst, protect you. 'Protect me? 'I had best tell you my story, which is a sufficiently extraordinary one.
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