Bottesham

Shortly after this, Blaize crept cautiously up to the back yard, and, opening the door, found, as he expected, Bottesham and his companion.

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She was still more perplexed when she saw the two strangers, and would have instantly retired if Bottesham had not detained her.

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"It would enable me to get into the house," returned Bottesham, "and then I might take measures for Amabel's deliverance."

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"What ails you?" pursued Bottesham, gazing at him through his spectacles.

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"I will provide you with a new one," returned Bottesham.

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"Without your master's knowledge?" asked Bottesham, eagerly.

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All doubts were removed when Bottesham, slipping a purse into her hand, entreated her, on some plea or other, to induce Amabel to come into the kitchen.

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"Your master must be mad to think of such a thing," rejoined Bottesham.

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Bottesham, in the cracked and quavering voice of old age, of Parkhurst.

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"It would be still more dreadful if so angelic a creature as Bloundel's daughter is represented to be -- for I have never seen her -- should be so seized," observed Bottesham.

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