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"What could happen?" said Mr Wodehouse, who still looked "limp" from his recent illness, "though I hear there are doubtful people about; so they tell me but you ought to know best, Wentworth. Who is that fellow in the beard that went by on the other side? Not little Lake the drawing-master? Fancied I had seen the build of the man before eh? a stranger? Well, it's a mistake, perhaps.
He could order the dinners by himself, it is true, and get men like himself to eat them; but the fine people the men who had once been fine, and who still retained a certain tarnished glory were, so far as Wodehouse was concerned, entirely in Jack Wentworth's keeping. He made a piteous appeal to his patron as the great man turned to go away.
Lieutenant and Boarding Officer, Her Majesty's ship Narcissus. Rear-Admiral Sir B. Walker to Lieutenant Low, C.S.N. December 27, 1863. Rear-Admiral Sir B. Walker to Sir P. Wodehouse. December 28, 1863. I shall be ready to hand her over to the Consul of the United States at Cape Town, or to any person you may appoint to take charge of her. Lieutenant Low, C.S.N., to Sir P. Wodehouse.
They started, however, to perceive not Wodehouse, but a personage of very different appearance, who came in with an easy air of polite apology, and looked at them with eyes which recalled to Lucy the eyes which had been gazing into her own scarcely an hour ago.
"Don't interest yourself on my account, Frank. This is my business at present. If you have any prayer-meetings in hand, we can spare you and don't forget our respectable friend in your supplications. Favour us with your definition of Jack Wentworth, Mr Wodehouse. He is neither more nor less ?" "By Jove!
It had been offered to and refused by Lord Wodehouse, a former viceroy of Ireland; Lord Harris, once governor of Madras and a contemporary of Elgin; Lord Eversley, who had been speaker of the House of Commons; and the Duke of Buckingham. Lord Monck had scarcely arrived in Canada when the Trent Affair occurred.
I am directed by the Governor to acquaint you that the Tuscaloosa having again arrived in Simon's Bay, will, under instructions lately received from Her Majesty's Government, be retained under Her Majesty's control and jurisdiction until properly reclaimed by her original holders. Mr. Graham to Sir P. Wodehouse. December 28, 1863.
I'll attend and look after your interests; but you had better see that this Tom Wodehouse, I remember the scamp he used to be bad enough for anything, don't give you the slip and get out of the way. Find out if you can where he has been living these two days.
He was a poor enough rogue himself, hustled and abused by everybody, an unsuccessful and shabby vagabond, notwithstanding his new fortune; but Jack was the glorified impersonation of cleverness and wickedness and triumph to Wodehouse.
He forgot the clouds that surrounded him in his anxiety about this sad household; for it seemed but too evident that Mr Wodehouse had made no special provision for his daughters; and to think of Lucy under the power of her unknown brother, made Mr Wentworth's blood boil. The shutters were all put up that afternoon in the prettiest house in Grange Lane.
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