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The general valuation would probably be no less because of the absence of this article. "Send out and borrow another, as many, in fact, as you can get," said Richard, impatiently; "and get ready a torch or two besides. Pick out four of the strongest men yonder, and bid them come with me, and search Wheal Danes." "What! that old pit. Sir?
"A do look very well now, sur," replied the miner, "but wan can never tell. I did work for weeks in the level under the say without success, so I guv it up an went to Wheal Hazard, and on the back o' the fifty-fathom level I did strike 'pon a small lode of tin 'bout so thick as my finger. It may get better, or it may take the bit in its teeth and disappear; we cannot tell."
"Make over Wheal Danes to me by deed! What! at my own price?" "For nothing; you shall have it for a free gift." "But the condition? What is it that you want of me that is not money?" "I want permission from you, Mr. Trevethick, to wed, that is for I would not speak of love without your leave to woo your daughter." "To wed my daughter!" cried Trevethick, starting from his seat; "my Harry!"
And I learned his story one day from an old miner, as we ate our bread and cheese together on the floor of Wheal Tregobbin, while the Davy lamp between us made wavering giants of our shadows on the walls of the adit, and the sea moaned as it tossed on its bed, two hundred feet above. St.
"Keep your wits steady, if you please," observed Balfour, sternly. "It is over now, Sir, and I am in the counting-house again," answered Solomon, submissively. "I felt a little exhilarated at the prospect of plucking a fruit that has been ripening for fifty years, that's all. This Wheal Danes is the very aloe of mines, and it is about to blossom for us only.
I'd give a shillin' a wheal out of my own pocket for the blessed privilege of scoring the thief's face with my whip, till his own mother wouldn't know him! And then she went on, sir, abusing all the men in her Irish way, which I can't repeat. At last she stops, and claps me on the back. 'You're a darlin' old girl, Peck! says she, 'and your friends are my friends.
He took a slip of paper from a large pocket-book which lay at his elbow on the new green cloth-covered table, and handed it to his friend, who slowly opened and read it in a slovenly way, mumbling the most of it as he went on: "`WHEAL DOOEM, in St. Just, Cornwall mumble m m in 10,000 shares. An old mine, m m every reason to believe m m splendid lodes visible from m m.
"If you know all about it, you need not let others know. What mine are you talking about? Give it a name but speak it under your breath, man." The old man leaned forward with a white moist face, and peered into Richard's eyes as though he would read his soul. "Wheal Danes was the name of the place, if I remember right," said Richard.
As soon, therefore, as he heard the door close, he jumped out of bed, and when, peeping through the blinds, he saw the carriage drive off with its four occupants, he at once began to dress. He felt bruised and sore from the blows he had received, and a red wheal round his chest, beneath the arms, showed where the rope had almost cut into the flesh.
But this is unchristian, and I must go consult Doctor Dubiety. Flesh and Blood! Have you never thought upon the Wrongs your Pedagogue has wrought upon you, and longed to meet that Wretch, and wheal his flesh with the same instrument with which he whealed you, and make the Ruffian howl for mercy? Mercy, quotha! did he ever show you any? A pretty equal match it was, surely!
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