I can give you a passport.
Escape to France and wait till this trouble is over.' Mr.Linwood was not in the best of tempers--Mr.Linwood shook him off.

'Charlotte's father will soon be my father,' says he, 'do you think I will desert him?
My friends at the Club have taken up my claim; do you think I will forsake them at the meeting to-morrow?
You ask me to be unworthy of Charlotte, and unworthy of my friends--you insult me, if you say more.' He whipped round on his heel, and followed my master." "And what did the Captain do ?" "Lifted up his hands, ma'am, to the heavens, and looked--I declare it turned my blood to see him.

If there's truth in mortal man, it's my firm belief--" What the housemaid's belief was, remained unexpressed.

Before she could get to her next word, a shriek of horror from the hall announced that the cook's powers of interruption were not exhausted yet.
Mistress and servant both hurried out in terror of they knew not what.
There stood the cook, alone in the hall, confronting the stand on which the overcoats and hats of the men of the family were placed.
"Where's the master's traveling coat ?" cried the cook, staring wildly at an unoccupied peg.

"And where's his cap to match! Oh Lord, he's off in the post-chaise! and the footman's after him!" Simpleton as she was, the woman had blundered on a very serious discovery.
Coat and cap--both made after a foreign pattern, and both strikingly remarkable in form and color to English eyes--had unquestionably disappeared.