"
"Be quick, then," said he, "for I'm in a devil of a hurry. Shut the door
after you, I say. What is the reason that you never do so, often as I
have spoken to you about it?"
"Becaise it's never done," she replied; "nobody ever bids me shut it but
yourself, an' that's what makes me forget it."
"Well, I'll thank you," he said, "to pay more attention to what I say
to you I have reason to think you both intrusive and ungrateful, Nanny;
and, mark, unless you show me somewhat more submission, madam, you shall
pitch your camp elsewhere. It was I brought you here."
"Ax your own conscience why, Mr. Hycy."
"Begone now and get me the hot water," he said, with a frown of anger
and vexation, heightened probably by the state of agitation into which
the possession of Vanston's letter had already put him.
We shall not follow him through all the ingenious and dishonorable
manoeuvres by which he got the communication safely open-ed; it is
enough to say that, in the course of a few minutes, he was enabled to
peruse the contents of Vanston's communication, which were as follows:--
Sir,--I beg to enclose you a letter which I received yesterday from the
Secretary to the Board of Excise, and to assure you that I feel much
pleasure in congratulating you upon its contents, and the satisfactory
result of your memorial.
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