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Wooler came forward from her parlour with a mysterious smile on her good-looking face. "Here's a billet-doux for you, Mr. Copplestone," she said. "And I can't tell you who left it. One of the girls found it lying on the hall table an hour ago." With that she handed Copplestone a much thumbed, very grimy, heavily-sealed envelope.
Applications were made, to Bentham for permission to use his 'Catechism, which was ultimately published in a cheap form by Wooler, well known as the editor of the democratic Black Dwarf. Burdett applied for a plan of parliamentary reform.
Wooler made several stitches in her sewing before she answered this direct question, and when, she spoke it was in lower tones and with a glance of caution. "He would be, if he could!" she said. "There are those in the village who say that he wants to marry his cousin. But the truth is so far as one can see or learn it that for some reason or other, neither Mrs.
"If I had not come when I did," Oswald said, "my absence might have been prolonged, for months. However, all has gone well, and I purpose starting at once for Alnwick, and would fain reach Wooler by nightfall." "That you can do, easily enough. I will order the horses to be saddled, at once." "I thank you, Sir Philip. I will mount here in the courtyard.
They saw Hotspur's force set out for the Cheviots to intercept Douglas and his followers, which they did at Homildon Hill, near Wooler; and it was the quarrel in connection with the prisoners taken on that day which led Hotspur and his father openly to throw off their allegiance to Henry IV., so that a few months later the peasants of Warkworth saw their idolised young lord set out for what was to prove the fatal field of Shrewsbury.
"Percy's Cross," marking the site of his death, may be seen by the side of the railway near Hedgeley Station, on the Alnwick and Wooler line.
We'll call in and see you later, Mrs. Wooler, and if you can make any inquiries in the meantime, do. Look here," he went on, when he and Copplestone had got outside, "you take this south side of the bay, and I'll take the north. Ask anybody you see any likely person fishermen and so on. Then come back here. And if we've heard nothing "
She speaks of her guest's company as being very pleasant,"like good wine," both to her father and to herself. But Miss Wooler could not remain with her long; and then again the monotony of her life returned upon her in all its force; the only events of her days and weeks consisting in the small changes which occasional letters brought.
But," she added, with a shake of the head which seemed to mean a good deal more than the smile, "he doesn't often come here. This is almost the only house in Scarhaven that doesn't belong to the Greyle estate. This house, and the land round it, have belonged to the Wooler family as long as the rest of the place has belonged to the Greyles.
And many a Greyle has wanted to buy it, and every Wooler has refused to sell it and always will!" "That's very interesting," said Copplestone. "Does the present Greyle want to buy?" The landlady picked up a piece of sewing and sat down in a chair which seemed to be purposely placed so that she could keep an eye on the adjacent bar-parlour on one side and the hall on the other.
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