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'I must be telling you now, Mrs Jones, ma'am, continues Mrs Jenkins, 'that I am not forgetting all your kindness to me up in London, when every one else was turning away. Ach a fi! and they 'joying themselves at Abertewey. Mrs Jones presses Mrs Griffey's arm, and whispers 'hush! 'To be seure! I was forgetting.
Owen laughed, and said he would not reply in Howel's words, as he was not sure that he knew his own business best. But he did not add that he should like to take care of Madame Duvet as she wished him to do. Neither did that afternoon and evening at Abertewey improve Owen's opinion of its inmates.
At Abertewey, Mrs Vaughan asked the colonel whether 'he thought Freda would come away from that thupid wedding, in time for dinner. 'If she doesn't, I will never ask her here again, was the reply. 'Now Freda really is a capital girl, unaffected and sensible; improving every year. I wish all women were more like her.
GLANYRAVON FARM, October 9, 18 . 'MY DEAR SON, Your letter came duly to hand, and I will not deny that it affected me very much. Netta, set up above her station at Abertewey, after disobeying her parents by running away, is very different from Netta, deserted by her scamp of a husband, and left in a poor London lodging.
Long before his father died, he had mortgaged that father's very mortgages; and had spent a large portion of his wealth in paying off debts of honour, and freeing himself from the Jews, into whose hands he had got before he went to live at Abertewey. During his four years' residence in London, it was evident that his means fluctuated in some wonderful way.
The reader may remember that Mrs Jenkins was at Abertewey when Howel made his triumphant entry there, but the following morning he gave her to understand, as delicately as he could, that the idiomatic translations of the Welsh language which had been so refreshing in London, would be better in her native town than at Abertewey, and she departed accordingly.
After that evening, people sneered at home perhaps, but they called and invited and made much of the master and mistress of Plas Abertewey, forgetting or ignoring their origin. Netta, too, obeyed Howel's last injunction to the best of her ability.
The dining-table just accommodated ten comfortably, and Netta sat in her easy-chair by the fire, with a small table by her side, making the eleventh. Miss Gwynne remained to luncheon only, being engaged to dine at Abertewey, and not considering herself quite as one of the guests.
Netta opened her large black eyes very wide, and burst out laughing. 'Ma foi! is that the last? Well, indeed! I never should have suspected her of making an impression. But she's deep enough for anything. How would father like that? Irish beggar against Abertewey! Come, Howel's better than that any day. 'Handsome is that handsome does, said Owen, getting very red.
To my utter astonishment I find it is to be a son of old Jenkins, the miser! I remember the father, but the son was some years my junior. You need not mention this, however, as it may fall to the ground. He wanted to buy the place, but I am too patriotic still to wish to sell. 'Howel Jenkins! little Netta! at Abertewey! exclaimed the trio in concert.
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