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The mistress of Laxton it was, therefore, whose opinion upon the case would virtually be decisive; since, if she saw no reasonable encouragement to any contest with my guardians, I felt too surely that my own uncountenanced and unaided energies drooped too much for such an effort. Who Lady Carbery was, I will explain in my next chapter, entitled Laxton.
I owe you a good deal for your help in a puzzling matter." The agent was sympathetic, and after Prescott had given him an outline of his connection with the case, they sat talking over its details. Laxton had a keen intelligence and his comments on several points were valuable.
At Laxton, indeed; it was that I first saw Godwin's "Political Justice;" not the second and emasculated edition in octavo, but the original quarto edition, with all its virus as yet undiluted of raw anti-social Jacobinism.
Now, at Laxton, the books had been so judiciously brought together, so many hooks and eyes connected them, that the whole library formed what one might call a series of strata, naturally allied, through which you might quarry your way consecutively for many months.
It was written in my presence, and what's more important, in the presence of another man. Now will you tell me what the fellow who made the deal with you was like?" Laxton did so, and Prescott thought the description indicated Wandle, though he was not the only man in the neighborhood of Sebastian to whom it might apply. "Did you notice how he was dressed?" he asked.
During the long stay of the Laxton party in Manchester, occurred a Christmas; and at Christmas that is, at the approach of this great Christian festival, so properly substituted in England for the Pagan festival of January and the New Year there was, according to ancient usage, on the breaking up for the holidays, at the Grammar School, a solemn celebration of the season by public speeches.
Laxton, Gibbons, and Goldgroove with us, and after dinner some musique, and so home to my business, and in the evening my wife and I, and Sarah and the boy, a most pleasant walk to Halfway house, and so home and to bed. 14th. Up by four o'clock in the morning and upon business at my office.
I frankly told him my difficulty. "So Laxton has got you in his clutches, has he?" was the simple, yet, I perceived, meaning reply that he made. "I am in his clutches, certainly," said I. "And will not get out of them very easily, I apprehend." "What will he do?" "He will sell the property at auction." "It won't bring his claim under the hammer."
In passing through the park-gates of Laxton, on my departure northward, powerfully, and as if "with the might of waters," my mind turned round to contemplate that strange enlargement of my experience which had happened to me within the last three months.
In the way overtaking Mr. Laxton, the apothecary, with his wife and daughters, very fine young lasses, in a coach; and so both of us to my Lady Sandwich, who hath lain this fortnight here at Deane Hodges's. Much company came hither to-day, my Lady Carteret, &c., Sir William Wheeler and his lady, and, above all, Mr.
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