Carwitchet

Lady Carwitchet was in ecstasies and tried to coax me into joining.

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I reached my wife to find her dying of a fever from which Lady Carwitchet and her crew had fled.

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889

Lady Carwitchet in a flannel wrapper, minus hair, teeth, complexion, pointing a skinny forefinger that quivered with rage at her son, who was out of the range of my vision.

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889

Lady Carwitchet, tripping in smiling, made a last attempt to induce me to accompany her and keep her "bad, bad boy" from getting among "those horrid betting men."

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889

He stood on the hearthrug conversing with a great hulking, high-shouldered fellow, sallow-faced, with a heavy mustache and drooping eyelids, from the corners of which flashed out a sudden suspicious look as I approached, which lighted up into a greedy one as it rested on my rubies, and seemed unaccountably familiar to me, till Lady Carwitchet tripping past me exclaimed:

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Then Lady Carwitchet got hold of her and led her into all sorts of mischief.

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889

The longed-for deliverance had but come to remove hopelessly and forever out of my reach Lady Carwitchet and the great

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889

I met them at Buxton, thought them uncommonly good company -- in fact, Carwitchet laid me under a great obligation about a horse I was nearly let in for buying -- and gave them a general invitation here, as one does, you know.

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Lady Carwitchet tells as a splendid joke how they got the copy made in Paris, and it did just as well for the people to stare at.

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889

"Has Lady Carwitchet shown you her sapphire?" was his most unexpected question.

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889