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d him without the least constraint of manner that since mr. garth left, raffles had asked her for beer, and after that had not spoken, seeming very ill. on that side it might be concluded that there had been no betrayal. mrs. abel thought, like the servants at the shrubs, that the strange man belonged to the unpleasant "kin" who are among the troubles of the rich; she had at first referred the kinship to mr. rigg, and where there was property left, the buzzing presence of such large blue-bottles seemed natural enough. how he could be "kin" to bulstrode as well was not so clear, but mrs. abel agreed with her husband that there was "no knowing," a proposition which had a great deal of mental food for her, so that she shook her head over it without further speculation. in less thanew that this was a sign of his not intending to speak further on the subject. as for bulstrode, he had almost immediately mounted his horse and set off for stone court, being anxious to arrive there before lydgate. his mind was crowded with images and conjectures, which were a language to his hopes and fears, just as we hear tones from the vibrations which shake our whole system. the deep humiliation with which he had winced under caleb garth's knowledge of his past and rejection of his patronage, alternated with and almost gave way to the sense of safety in the fact that garth, and no other, had been the man to whom raffles had spoken. it seemed to him a sort of earnest that providence intended his rescue from worse consequences; the way being thus left open for the
