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| The Bedford-Row Conspiracy | William Makepeace Thackeray |
II. Shows how the plot began to thicken in or about Bedford Row. |
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Mr. Crampton continued:-- "I think I know the cause of your patriotism. Has not William Pitt Scully, Esquire, had something to do with it?" Mr. Perkins COULD not turn any redder than he was, but confessed with deep humiliation that "he HAD consulted Mr. Scully among other friends." Mr. Crampton smiled--drew a letter from a heap before him, and tearing off the signature, handed over the document to his nephew. It contained the following paragraphs:-- "Hawksby has sounded Scully: we can have him any day we want him. He talks very big at present, and says he would not take anything under a. . . This is absurd. He has a Yorkshire nephew coming up to town, and wants a place for him. There is one vacant in the Tape Office, he says: have you not a promise of it?" "I can't--I can't believe it," said John; "this, sir, is some weak invention of the enemy. Scully is the most honourable man breathing." |
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