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Updated: June 29, 2025
She knew very well that by further reference to Mrs Tresize she risked cutting short the doctor's visit. Yet, woman-like, she could not forbear from just one more word. 'She keeps it under the bed. 'Keeps what? asked Doctor Unonius. The old woman chuckled again. 'Why, her money, to be sure hundreds an' hundreds o' pounds in a great iron chest.
I will come with pleasure, said Doctor Unonius, thrusting Homer back in his shelf. 'Wunnerful brandy, Sir John! said old Squire Morshead. He said this regularly as he dined at Penalune when, after dinner and wine and songs, the hour came for the 'brandy-mixing' before the guests dispersed. Sir John was a widower and confined his hospitality to men.
Settin' down may be all right for the time, only the difficulty is you've got to get up again sooner or later onless help arrives. 'Eureka! exclaimed Doctor Unonius, rushing to his notes. 'I beg y'r honour's pardon?
'Don't you fret about that: you won it all right. 'Eh? queried Doctor Unonius, wiping his spectacles. 'Ay, said Captain Minards, filling a pipe; 'you won it, right enough. 'But 'There's no "but" about it. And what vexes me, pursued Captain Minards, 'is that the rascals don't even trouble to rob you neatly. See that branch broken, yonder. 'That's with the weight of the crop.
He could see that the finger-tips were square, and the palm, if he mistook not, showed a row of callosities at the base of the fingers. Something in the pulse's beat caught his attention, and almost at the same moment his nostrils expanded suspiciously. Doctor Unonius had a delicate sense of smell.
Immersed in these studies, Doctor Unonius found no leisure to think of matrimony; and his friends and neighbours often took occasion to deplore it, for he was an extremely personable man, fresh-coloured and hale, of clean and regular habits, and, moreover, kind-hearted to a fault.
'Tryphena understands horses, said Mrs Tresize. 'Come indoors, please, and tell me all about it. Doctor Unonius lifted out the incriminating bag and followed her along the passage. She paused at the door of the best kitchen and pushed it wide. He looked in upon a bare but not uncheerful room, where a clean wood fire blazed on an open hearth and over the fire a kettle sang cosily.
'I can help you with the loading, said Mrs Tresize. 'But tell me the worst of the danger, please. Doctor Unonius set the bag on the table, and unloaded its contents one by one while he told his story. The sight of the money-bags did not produce quite the thrill he had looked for, but she evinced a lively interest in the paper pinned to the map.
Doctor Unonius, drawing off his right-hand glove with his teeth, reached across also and laid his fingers in professional fashion on the wrist. Yes; he was right. The wrist was a man's wrist, large and bony. He screwed up his eyes and peered down as well as he might at the upturned hand.
Certainly she can have dabbled no more in smuggling, and as certainly she had told the truth about her age. Thrice in the years that followed Doctor Unonius spent some hours of the night, waiting, in the best kitchen at Landeweddy; and Mrs Rattenbury on neither of these occasions so critical for herself forgot to have him provided with a decanter of excellent brandy.
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