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The ashes being easily moved by a skilful hand, the spies took this as a hint to make off in good time. Accordingly, Mr Venus slipped past Mr Wegg and towed him down.
Mr Boffin appeased him with a wave of his hand, and said: 'I employed him, Wegg. 'Oh! You employed him, Boffin? Very good. Mr Venus, we raise our terms, and we can't do better than proceed to business. Bof fin! I want the room cleared of these two scum.
Her voice softened at this last remark, and Patsy exclaimed, impulsively: "Tell us about Joe Wegg. Did you like him?" "Yes," said Ethel, simply; "we were naturally thrown much together in our childhood, and became staunch friends. Grandpa often took me with him on his visits to the Weggs, and sometimes, but not often, the Captain would bring Joe to see us.
Even this general's career paled in interest for Mr Boffin before the clearing of his conscience with Wegg; and hence, when that literary gentleman had according to custom eaten and drunk until he was all a-glow, and when he took up his book with the usual chirping introduction, 'And now, Mr Boffin, sir, we'll decline and we'll fall! Mr Boffin stopped him.
I thought to myself, 'Here's a literary man with a wooden leg, and all print is open to him! And here am I without a wooden leg, and all print is shut to me." "I believe you couldn't show me the piece of English print that I wouldn't be equal to collaring and throwing," Mr. Wegg admitted modestly. "Now I want some reading, and I must pay a man so much an hour to come and do it for me.
It was he who first established the mill at Millville; so, in marrying a descendant of Little Bill Thompson, Joe Wegg had become quite the most important resident of Chazy County, and the young man was popular and well liked by all who knew him. After the first interchange of greetings Joe questioned Mr. Merrick about the explosion of the night before, and Uncle John frankly stated his suspicions.
The simple yet pathetic story accounted for all the mystery that, in her imagination, enveloped the life and death of Captain Wegg. But stay! "How did your father die?" she asked, softly. "Through a heart trouble, from which he had suffered for years, and which had obliged him to lead a very quiet life," was the reply.
When Mr Silas Wegg did at last obtain free access to 'Our House', as he had been wont to call the mansion outside which he had sat shelterless so long, and when he did at last find it in all particulars as different from his mental plans of it as according to the nature of things it well could be, that far-seeing and far-reaching character, by way of asserting himself and making out a case for compensation, affected to fall into a melancholy strain of musing over the mournful past; as if the house and he had had a fall in life together.
"He will scarcely venture to do that while we are here," replied Uncle John. "I said 'tempt him, Uncle." "And what did you mean by that expression, Beth?" "I'll think it over and tell you later," she returned, quietly. Ethel Thompson would have shown Joe Wegg how much she resented his leaving Millville without a word to her, had she not learned from Mr. Merrick the boy's sad condition.
I shall expect you, Wegg, said Mr Boffin, clapping him on the shoulder with the greatest enthusiasm, 'most joyfully. I shall have no peace or patience till you come. Print is now opening ahead of me. This night, a literary man WITH a wooden leg he bestowed an admiring look upon that decoration, as if it greatly enhanced the relish of Mr Wegg's attainments 'will begin to lead me a new life!
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