[Peg Woffington by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookPeg Woffington CHAPTER X 11/19
"There ye go again," said he, and he went angrily to the door.
This time it was Hunsdon, who was in a desperate hurry to see his master. "Where is Sir Charles Pomander, my honest fellow ?" said he. "In the garden, my Jack-a-dandy!" said Burdock, furiously. ("Honest fellow," among servants, implies some moral inferiority.) In the garden went Hunsdon.
His master--all whose senses were playing sentinel--saw him, and left the company to meet him. "She is in the house, sir." "Good! Go--vanish!" Sir Charles looked into the banquet-room; the haunch was being placed on the table.
He returned with the information.
He burned to bring husband and wife together; he counted each second lost that postponed this (to him) thrilling joy.
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