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It was directly after receiving one of these in his arm, that Mr Haredale, making a keener thrust as he felt the warm blood spirting out, plunged his sword through his opponent's body to the hilt. Their eyes met, and were on each other as he drew it out. He put his arm about the dying man, who repulsed him, feebly, and dropped upon the turf.
And thus, in course of time, they reached the door, held ready for their entrance by no unwilling hands. Then slipping in, and shutting out the crowd by main force, Gabriel stood between Mr Haredale and Edward Chester, and Barnaby, rushing up the stairs, fell upon his knees beside his mother's bed.
Haredale Devereux or whatever name you happen to be using, I have forced myself upon you to-night to inform you that, knowing you at last for the foul and loathsome thing you are, I am very earnest that you should pollute the world no longer. Two years ago you struck me in the yard behind the Chequers Inn, at Tonbridge; I call upon you to account for that blow to-night here and now!"
'My dear madam, brought up, educated, and trained, expressly for that purpose. Expressly for that purpose. Miss Haredale, I am told, is a very charming creature. 'I am her foster-mother, and should know the best young lady in the world, said Mrs Varden. 'I have not the smallest doubt of it. I am sure she is.
'I should be very glad to be near Miss Emma of course, and always am. 'That's well, said Mr Haredale. 'That is all I had to say. You are anxious to go. Don't let me detain you. Dolly didn't let him, nor did she wait for him to try, for the words had no sooner passed his lips than she was out of the room, out of the house, and in the fields again.
It will bring some other heavy judgement on the head of my dear son, whose innocence will suffer for his mother's guilt. 'What words are these! cried Mr Haredale, regarding her with wonder. 'Among what associates have you fallen? Into what guilt have you ever been betrayed? 'I am guilty, and yet innocent; wrong, yet right; good in intention, though constrained to shield and aid the bad.
From capacious pocket he drew forth a bottle and held it towards me, which I forthwith dashed against the wall. "And now," said I, "give me the pistol!" "What for?" he demanded, sobered a little. "Because I purpose to shoot him." "Who, Perry?" "Trenchard or Haredale or Devereux or whatever he calls himself. Come, give me the pistol.
He knew that, to the last, he had been an unyielding, obdurate man; that in the savage terror of his condition he had hardened, rather than relented, to his wife and child; and that the last words which had passed his white lips were curses on them as his enemies. Mr Haredale had determined to be there, and see it done.
You wonder now, he said, turning languidly to Mr Haredale, 'to see me here. Now, I am sure you do. Mr Haredale glanced at him not fondly or admiringly smiled, and held his peace. 'The mystery is solved in a moment, said Mr Chester; 'in a moment. Will you step aside with me one instant. You remember our little compact in reference to Ned, and your dear niece, Haredale?
'Of the Maypole at your service, sir. Mr Haredale closed the window, and withdrew. He presently appeared at a door in the bottom of the turret, and coming across the garden-walk, unlocked the gate and let them in. 'You are a late visitor, Willet. What is the matter? 'Nothing to speak of, sir, said John; 'an idle tale, I thought you ought to know of; nothing more.
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