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The account of Sir Arthur's unhappy adventure had led Oldbuck somewhat aside from his purpose of catechising Lovel concerning the cause of his residence at Fairport. He was now, however, resolved to open the subject. "Miss Wardour was formerly known to you, she tells me, Mr. Lovel?" "He had had the pleasure," Lovel answered, to see her at Mrs. Wilmot's, in Yorkshire."
Why come hollowing and whooping out cavalier ditties, like a drunken trooper of Prince Rupert, or one of Wilmot's swaggering body-guards?" "Because I may have been both one and t'other in my day, for aught that you know," replied Wildrake.
I was resolved, however, to get more certain information, and to defeat, if possible, the completion of his designs, by sending my son to old Mr Wilmot's, with instructions to know the truth of the report, and to deliver Miss Wilmot a letter, intimating Mr Thornhill's conduct in my family.
Robert poured out with an eye trained to accurate measurements in the laboratory. It was his practice to do well everything that he had to do. Otherwise you lost tone you weakened your own fibre so that when the big thing came along you slumped. But he could not forget Francey Wilmot's nearness. It did not surprise him any more. But it charged him with unrest, and he and his unrest frightened him.
There has been no coercion?" "It's all right," chirped in Blizzard. "Glad of the chance to pay me back, aren't you, my boy?" For a moment Wilmot's eyes rested with a cold contempt on the beggar's. And he thought, "to save her from that!" and once more nodded. "Shall I tell them to bring the ether, doctor?" Dr. Ferris turned his head slowly.
Yet we can easily conceive that he may have thought at the time he could do more for the cause of Reform inside the government than out of it, and, although this proved to be an error, it was a natural one for which it is not difficult to find an excuse. Fortunately for the cause of Reform, Wilmot's connection with the government did not last long at that time.
The recognition was of course mutual, and in the surprise of meeting so unexpectedly, and in explanations of how it had come about, the two girls exchanged more words than they had ever done when in the same classes at Mrs. Wilmot's. "And you did not know Oakvale was my home?" said Mary Eastwood, when Lucy had told how she and her cousin came to be there.
"I had seen the science of the detective police so invariably triumphant over the best-planned schemes of the most audacious criminals, that I should have considered had I ever debated the question, which I never did Joseph Wilmot's evasion of justice an actual impossibility.
He was not handsome, and as Jenny did not admire dark complexions, she mentally set him down as an uninteresting person probably Lord Wilmot's man. The good-natured steward, on her right hand, noticed Jenny's look at the new comer. "That is Mrs Jane's new man," said he kindly; "he goeth with you into Somerset.
Although the second reconnaissance from Dunquah had, like the first, been unsuccessful, its effect upon the Ashantis was very great. They had themselves suffered great loss, while they could not see that any of their enemies had been killed, for Lieutenant Wilmot's body had been carried off.
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