Baptist Kettleby (for so was the Master named) was a "goodly portly man, and a
corpulent," whose fair round paunch bespoke the affection he entertained for
good liquor and good living. It is a
precaution merely. The coolies proceeded at a swinging, mincing trot, which gave to the
suspended seat a dancing action similar to that of a suddenly agitated hangingspring of a birdcage. ‘Do you at least know how he came to be in a position to cheat Miss Charvill,
and to pass off his wife in her place?’
‘In her place?’ There was no mistaking the boy’s ignorance of this part of the
tale. Her aunt had summoned up an altogether too vivid picture of her father as the
masterful man, overbearing, emphatic, sentimental, noisy, aimless. ”
He caught her wrist and turned her face towards him. Incursions were often made upon its territories
by the functionaries of the law; sometimes attended with success, but more
frequently with discomfiture; and it rarely happened, unless by stratagem or
bribery, that (in the language of the gentlemen of the short staff) an important
caption could be effected. “I haven’t a scrap—of this sort of aversion. \"If you could go to Junior Prom, forget that, Senior
Prom, with anybody in the whole school, who would you
go with?\" Michelle asked. ”
“I said I was all right. ‘You did not find Gosse,
that is seen, but—’
‘Gosse? Gosse? Who’s this here Gosse then?’
‘He is the Frenchman of whom I told you. On the left lay the heights of
Hampstead, studded with villas, while farther off a hazy cloud marked the
position of the metropolis.
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