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"And for mercy's sake, keep that leg of yours quiet, if you can. You are fidgeting me out of my wits." Mr Sheepshanks, his mouth pursed up in a deprecating and uneasy smile, sat gazing vaguely in front of him. "I think it might be wise to defer the Song of Solomon," he suggested. And then the sublime opening chapters " "Oh, dear Mr Sheepshanks!
But now that the haunted room was to be invaded by friendly, commonplace artisans from the village, and turned inside out, and almost pulled to pieces, there was a chance that the ghosts would be got rid of without invoking the aid of Mr Sheepshanks; a reflection that inspired her with hope, and comforted her greatly.
"Two thousand a year in shire, bought a bargain." "What's the name of the place?" "Grubley." "Lord Grubley! Baron Grubley of Grubley oh, atrocious! Who had the place before you?" "Bought it of Mr. Sheepshanks very old family." "But surely some old Norman once had the place?" "Norman, yes! Henry the Second gave it to his barber Bertram Courval." "That's it! that's it!
A moment afterwards, Molly's perception overtook his. He could see the startled look overspread her face; and in an instant she would have run away, but before the first rush was made, Mr. Preston laid his hand firmly on her arm. 'Keep quiet. You must be seen. You, at any rate, have done nothing to be ashamed of. As he spoke Mr. Sheepshanks came round the bend of the road and was close upon them.
At first they walked along quietly enough, admiring the prospect, and enjoying the fresh air; but after a few moments, Dr. Sheepshanks could no longer resist the desire to put his new theory of health into practice. "Really," he began, "it would be much better for us always to pursue our studies in the open air.
'Oh, Cynthia, don't ask me; I cannot do any more. You don't know how sick I go when I think of yesterday, and Mr. Sheepshanks' look. 'It is only a very little thing. I won't burden your conscience with telling you how I get my letters, but it is not through a person I can trust with money; and I must force him to take back his twenty-three pounds odd shillings.
"Confound it!" said Byfield, "the land can't be uninhabited!" It was, for aught we could see. Not a light showed anywhere; and to make things worse the moon had abandoned us. For one good hour we swept through chaos to the tuneless lamentations of Sheepshanks, who declared that his collar-bone was broken. Then Dalmahoy flung a hand upwards.
The sight that caused Dr. Skihi to commit such a breach of good manners was Dr. Sheepshanks in the very middle of a summersault! with his flowered dressing gown about his ears and his spindle shanks and black stockings in the air, looking not unlike a two-legged radish growing upside down. To him rushed Dr.
"My name is Sheepshanks," said the little man stiffly. "But you'll excuse me " Mr. Dalmahoy interrupted with a playful cat-call. "Hear, hear! Silence! 'His name is Sheepshanks. On the Grampian Hills his father kept his flocks a thousand sheep, and, I make no doubt, shanks in proportion. Excuse you, Sheepshanks? My dear sir!
Preston was now installed in his new house at Hollingford; Mr Sheepshanks having entered into dignified idleness at the house of his married daughter, who lived in the county town.
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