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Witherington sipped his port wine, and putting down his glass again, fell back in his chair, placed his hands on his breast, interwove his fingers; and in this most comfortable position recommenced his speculations as to the non-arrival of the Circassian. We will leave him to his cogitations while we introduce him more particularly to our readers. The father of Mr.
Mr Witherington then plucked up courage, and after a few stormy months drove his sister back to Bath, and once more found himself comfortable.
One fine day, Lady Mary Witherington, after paying all the household bills, paid the debt of Nature; that is, she died: her husband paid the undertaker's bill, so it is to be presumed that she was buried. Mr Witherington senior shortly afterwards had a stroke of apoplexy, which knocked him down. Death, who has no feelings of honour, struck him when down.
Hereward raised his shield, warding the stroke, and threw in that coup de jarret, which there is no guarding, after the downright blow has been given. The stranger dropped upon his wounded knee. "Yield," cried Hereward in his turn. "That is not my fashion." And the stranger fought on, upon his stumps, like Witherington in Chevy Chase.
"Margaret Witherington. "PS. Lady Betty and I both agree that you are very right in hiring two black people to bring the child into your house, as it makes the thing look foreign to the neighbours, and we can keep our own secrets. "Now, by all the sins of the Witheringtons, if this is not enough to drive a man out of his senses! Confound the suspicious old maid!
Witherington had dined at his house in company with the Templemores, and therefore had extracted quite enough information from the negroes to know where to direct them. 'By the blood of my ancestors! they'll be here to-night, cried Mr. Witherington; 'and I have saved my journey. What is to be done? better tell Mary to get rooms ready: d'ye hear, William; beds for one little boy and two niggers.
Such was certainly the motive; though it was not fear for his own safety that influenced General Witherington, but he dreaded lest he should carry the infection home to the nursery, on which he doated. The alarm of his lady was yet more unreasonably sensitive: she would scarcely suffer the children to walk abroad, if the wind but blew from the quarter where the hospital was situated.
Witherington rang the bell, and Jonathan made his appearance. 'What is all this, Jonathan? said he; 'cook angry Mary crying both going away what's it all about? 'Why, sir, they were told by William that it was your positive order that the two black people were to sleep with them; and I believe he told Mary that the man was to sleep with her.
"General Witherington," said Hartley, "you are wealthy, and entitled to be generous I am poor, and not entitled to decline whatever may be, even in a liberal sense, a compensation for my professional attendance.
"I am happy in this opportunity," said Middlemas, observing that the General did not speak, "to return my thanks to General Witherington, to whom they never can be sufficiently paid." The sound of his voice, though uttering words so indifferent, seemed to dissolve the charm which kept his mother motionless.
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