‘I am Major Gerald Alderley of the West
Kent Militia. “I wonder what he takes me for?”
When presently she got down from the stile a certain note of internal conflict,
a touch of doubt, had gone from her warm-tinted face. Arrived at the audience-chamber, he set down the light upon a stand,
threw open the door, and announced in a loud voice, but with the perfect
intonation of the person he represented,—"Sir Rowland Trenchard. The girl in the forward chair raised herself a little, the better to see the gorgeous
blue palanquin of the dimly visible bride. ” He said
jealously. "What do you want with me?"
"A word in private," replied the other. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen
yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to
send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you
to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to
give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like
his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all
this, I suppose. Born on a South Sea island, she said. Yesterday!—who cared?
To-morrow!—who knew?
"Porpoise," she said, touching his hand. "Well, who'd have thought of Shotbolt beating us all in this way!" said Ireton. ToC
On the night of Friday, the 26th of November, 1703, and at the hour of eleven,
the door of a miserable habitation, situated in an obscure quarter of the Borough
of Southwark, known as the Old Mint, was opened; and a man, with a lantern in
his hand, appeared at the threshold. . Stanley poured wine. ”
“You meant to say ‘morbid’.
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