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'And Mr Lightwood, added the boy, with a burning face, under the flaming aggravation of getting no sort of answer or attention, 'I hope you'll take notice of what I have said to your friend, and of what your friend has heard me say, word by word, whatever he pretends to the contrary.
'I must see this out, Mortimer, whispered Eugene, rising. 'How shall we go? 'Let us walk, whispered Lightwood, 'and give this fellow time to think of it. Having exchanged the question and answer, they prepared themselves for going out, and Mr Riderhood rose.
And so, Lady Tippins, quite undetermined whether today is the day before yesterday, or the day after to-morrow, or the week after next, fades away; and Mortimer Lightwood and Eugene fade away, and Twemlow fades away, and the stoney aunt goes away she declines to fade, proving rock to the last and even the unknowns are slowly strained off, and it is all over.
And once, when he did this in a manner that amounted to personal, I should have given him a rattler for himself, if Mrs Boffin hadn't thrown herself betwixt us, and received flush on the temple. Which dropped her, Mr Lightwood. Dropped her. Mr Lightwood murmured 'Equal honour Mrs Boffin's head and heart.
Mr Lightwood, without explaining that his weariness was chronic, proceeded with his exposition that, all forms of law having been at length complied with, will of Harmon deceased having been proved, death of Harmon next inheriting having been proved, &c., and so forth, Court of Chancery having been moved, &c. and so forth, he, Mr Lightwood, had now the gratification, honour, and happiness, again &c. and so forth, of congratulating Mr Boffin on coming into possession as residuary legatee, of upwards of one hundred thousand pounds, standing in the books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, again &c. and so forth.
'Now, I'm blest if I understand you, Governors Both, said the informer, in a creeping manner: propitiating both, though only one had spoken. 'What? Ain't THAT enough? 'Did you ask him how he did it, where he did it, when he did it? 'Far be it from me, Lawyer Lightwood!
Eugene, bringing them to the table, sat down as clerk or notary. 'Now, said Lightwood, 'what's your name? But further precaution was still due to the sweat of this honest fellow's brow. 'I should wish, Lawyer Lightwood, he stipulated, 'to have that T'other Governor as my witness that what I said I said. Consequent, will the T'other Governor be so good as chuck me his name and where he lives?
But it is understood that his attention is now rather used up, and difficult to hold, that being the tone of the House of Commons. 'Pray don't be at the trouble of composing yourselves to listen, says Mortimer Lightwood, 'because I shall have finished long before you have fallen into comfortable attitudes. It's like
Mr Inspector speedily returning down the wooden stairs, with a police constable, Lightwood asked him if he had seen his friend leave them? Mr Inspector could not exactly say that he had seen him go, but had noticed that he was restless. 'Singular and entertaining combination, sir, your friend.
Then he wrote to one of the officers at the Falls, saying that he was "sitting by the fire with a piece of lightwood and two ribs of an old buffloe, which is all the meat we have seen this many days. I congratulate your success against the Shawanohs, but there's never doubts where that brave Col. La Balme's Expedition.
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