Miss Mary being his only child ’an all, he were in a right pelter. . ‘Damnation!’ Confused, he released her, and in an instant she had darted away and was running down the garden. This was just what he needed. Beyond was another door, on which was painted in black letters: MR. Spurling, for so was she named, had a warm nut-brown complexion, almost as dark as a Creole; and a moustache on her upper lip, that would have done no discredit to the oldest dragoon in the King's service. ‘Do you mean to tell me,’ enquired the captain at length, ‘that you have had the infernal audacity, the—the gall, the—the— Gad, it’s an outrage! You’ve stolen a horse from a priest?’ ‘I did not steal it,’ protested Melusine hotly. It may be, it probably will all come to, nothing. I must tell somebody—and you would understand. This formidable person, who was no other than the renowned Figg, the "Atlas of the sword," as he is termed by Captain Godfrey, had removed his hat and "skull covering," and was wiping the heat from his bepatched and closeshaven pate. But that instinct is severely dampened most of the time. That old chap has a remarkable range in reading. And not only did these tentacular generalizations gather all the facts of natural history and comparative anatomy together, but they seemed always stretching out further and further into a world of interests that lay altogether outside their legitimate bounds.
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