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'It don't take much cleverness for me to tell who has got more of it nor anybody else, and it don't take much cleverness for me to tell that I ain't got none of it left myself; none of it, Caldigate. Not a d hundred pounds! This he said with terrible energy. 'I'm sorry it's so bad as that with you, Crinkett. 'Yes; you is sorry, I daresay.
But with Aunt Polly and Julia there remained the sense of the old injury, robbing Shand of all his attributes of birth, and endowing even Crinkett with truth. Then there had been a few words, and the Squire had asserted himself, and insisted upon asking Shand to Babington. 'Did you ever see such trousers? said Julia to her mother. 'I would not believe him on his oath. 'Certainly not, said Mr.
The woman's evidence was absolutely so tainted, was defiled with perjury. And the man Crinkett had been so near the woman that it was impossible to disconnect them. Who had concocted the fraud? The woman could hardly have done so without the man's connivance. It took him all the morning to think the matter out, and then he had not made up his mind.
But there he was, asleep, with his two hands on a stick, and his head bent forward over his stick. It was impossible not to look at the man sleeping there in that way; but Caldigate would hardly have looked, would hardly have dared to look, could he have anticipated what he would see. The elderly man was Thomas Crinkett. As he passed he was quite sure that the man was Thomas Crinkett.
Tom Crinkett was taking advantage of his absence in reference to Polyeuka, that his presence would soon be required there; and other things were not going quite smoothly. He had much to trouble him; but still he was determined to carry out his purpose with Hester Bolton.
He shook hands, of course, with both of them, and then he stood a moment silent to hear how they would address him. But as they also were silent he was compelled to speak. 'I hope you got home all right, sir, yesterday; and Mrs. Bolton. The old man did not answer, but he turned his face round to his son. 'I hear that you had that man Crinkett out at Folking yesterday, said Robert.
She had been known to the banks at Nobble, also even at Sydney; and had been supposed at one time to have been worth twenty or thirty thousand pounds. Then she had joined herself with Crinkett, and all their money had been supposed to vanish in the Polyeuka mine. No doubt there had been enough in that to create animosity of the most bitter kind against Caldigate.
I like trade, myself, added the miner; 'but some of 'em's too sharp. That's where Crinkett lives. He's a swell; ain't he?
The house which they saw certainly surprised them much, and seemed to justify the assertion just before made to them that Mr. Crinkett was a swell. It was marvellous that any man should have contemplated the building of such a mansion in a place so little attractive, with so many houses within view.
'I have come to tell you something that has occurred since I was here just now, said Caldigate, meeting his brother-in-law at the door of the office. 'Would you mind coming back? 'I am rather in a hurry. 'It is of importance, and you had better hear it, said Caldigate, leading the way imperiously to the inner room. 'It is for your sister's sake. That man Crinkett is in Cambridge.
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