His shoes
were made of some description of foreign bark, which had by some
chemical process been tanned into toughness, and on his head he wore
a turban of linen, made of the same material which furnished his
other garments. Altogether, a more ludicrous figure could not be seen,
especially if a person happened to stand behind him when he bowed.
Notwithstanding all this, however, he possessed the manners and bearing
of a gentleman; the only thing remarkable about him, beyond what we have
described, being a peculiar wildness of the eyes, accompanied, however,
by an unquestionable expression of great benignity.
We leave the company at the Well preparing for the forthcoming
dinner and return to Rathfillan House, where Harry Woodward is making
arrangements for his journey to Ballyspellan, which now we believe goes
by the name of Johnstown. Under every circumstance of his life he was a
plotter and a planner, and had at all times some private speculation in
view. On the present occasion, in addition to his murderous design
upon Miss Goodwin, he resolved to become a wife-hunter, for, being well
acquainted, as he was, with the tone and temper of English society at
its most celebrated watering places, and.
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