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John Caldigate

CHAPTER XXXIV
19/21

'Where is Mrs.Caldigate ?' he said, as the man drove the empty carriage down the entrance to the yard.

The man, touching his hat, and with a motion of his hand which was intended to check his master's impetuosity, drove on; and then, when he had freed himself from the charge of his horses, told his story with many whispers.
'The gardener said she wasn't to come!' 'Just that, sir.

There's something up more than you think, sir; there is indeed.

He was that fractious that he wouldn't hold the hosses for me, not for a minute, till I could go in and see, and then------' 'Well ?' 'The gates was chained, sir.' 'Chained ?' 'A chain was round the bars, and a padlock.

I never see such a thing on a gentleman's gate in my life before.


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