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Miss Milly, it
must be premised, had fled to her room out of his embrace, and was taking
off her bonnet and shawl there.
"I thought he meant mischief. He was so uncommon civil," the other said.
"What has he come to say?"
"O Bows! He has overwhellum'd me," the Captain said. "There's a hellish
conspiracy on foot against me poor girl; and it's me opinion that both
them Pendennises, nephew and uncle, is two infernal thrators and
scoundthrels, who should be conshumed from off the face of the earth."
"What is it? What has happened?" said Mr. Bows, growing rather excited.
Costigan then told him the Major's statement that the young Pendennis had
not two thousand, nor two hundred pounds a year; and expressed his fury
that he should have permitted such an impostor to coax and wheedle his
innocent girl, and that he should have nourished such a viper in his own
personal bosom. "I have shaken the reptile from me, however," said
Costigan; "and as for his uncle, I'll have such a revenge on that old
man, as shall make 'um rue the day he ever insulted a Costigan.


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