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Wylder's settlements were not satisfactory, it was presumed, or the young lady could not bring herself to like him, or however it came to pass, one way or another, that sprig of willow inevitably to be mounted by hero or heroine upon such equivocal occasions was placed by the honest town by no means in her breast, but altogether in his button-hole.
The late marquis, you know, prided himself on his honey and my friend, Thornbury, cousin to Sir Frederick Thornbury I suppose you know him an East Indian judge, you know very kindly left it at Dollington for me, on his way to the Earl of Epsom's. 'Thank you delicious, I'm sure, it has been in such good company. May I see Wylder's note that is, if there's no private business? 'Oh, certainly.
Their very 'wills' were spiced with the devilment of the 'testators, and abounded in insinuations and even language which were scandalous. Here is Mark Wylder's letter: 'DEAR CHARLES Of course you have heard of my good luck, and how kind poor Dickie from whom I never expected anything proved at last.
There was a long wait here, lest he should return; but he did not appear, and Stanley though I now believe observed by this strange being executed his horrible task, replaced the implements, and returned to Rachel, and with her to Redman's Farm; where his cool cunning once more ascendant he penned those forgeries, closing them with Mark Wylder's seal, which he compelled his sister quite unconscious of all but that their despatch by post, at the periods pencilled upon them, was essential to her wretched brother's escape.
His treasure his oracle his book of power, the labelled parcel of Wylder's letters, with the annotated map folded beside them he replaced in their red-taped ligature in his iron safe, and with Chubb's key in his pocket, took his hat and cane the day was fine and walked forth for Brandon and the captain's study. A pleasant day, a light air, a frosty sun.
Wylder's affairs were not at present by any means in so settled a state as was supposed; and that a long betrothal not being desirable on the whole, Miss Brandon's relatives thought it advisable that the engagement should terminate, and had so decided, Mr. Wylder having, very properly, placed himself absolutely in their hands.
'And would that arrangement of Mr. Wylder's have satisfied the conditions of the will? said the Town Clerk. 'I rather think, with proper precautions, it would. Mark Wylder was very shrewd, and would not have run himself into a fix, answered Lake. 'I don't know any man shrewder; he is, certainly.
But in Wylder's I saw a sort of conceited consciousness, and a certain eagerness, too, while he talked; though a shrewd fellow in many ways, he had a secret conviction that no woman could resist him. 'I suppose the world thinks me a very happy fellow, Miss Lake? he said, with a rather pensive glance of enquiry into that young lady's eyes, as he set down his hock-glass.
He consulted his watch, and she sat fixed and powerless as a portion of the block on which she leaned, staring up at this, to her, terrific apparition. Mark Wylder's return boded, she believed, something tremendous. She saw the glimmer of the gold watch, and, distinctly, the great black whiskers, and the face pallid in the moonlight.
The attorney must run up to London for a day or two. What if that mysterious, and almost illegible brute, James Dutton, should arrive while he was away. Very unpleasant, possibly! For the attorney intended to keep that gentleman very quiet. Sufficient time must be allowed to intervene to disconnect the purchase of the vicar's remainder from the news of Mark Wylder's demise.
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