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Everett, General Lord Charvill, master of a barony stretching over a wide estate
that encroached on the hundreds of Witham, Thurstable and Dengy, stood before
his own fireplace, glaring at his visitors from under bushy white brows from a
head held necessarily low above a back painfully bent by rheumatism. "
"Never!" rejoined Kneebone, with increased ardour,—"never, till I receive from
your own lips the answer which is to make me the happiest or the most
miserable of mankind. The coachman
answered by a surly grunt, and, plying his whip with redoubled zeal, shaped his
course down Dyot Street; traversed that part of Holborn, which is now called
Broad Street, and where two ancient alms-houses were, then, standing in the
middle of that great thoroughfare, exactly opposite the opening of Compston
Street; and, diving under a wide gateway on the left, soon reached a more open
space, surrounded by mean habitations, coach-houses and stables, called
Kendrick Yard, at the further end of which Saint Giles's round-house was
situated. Easily I could have killed you. Always at your service.
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