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"Buy 'em, Adam, buy everything! If we haven't enough money there's plenty more where this came from, only buy! You understand?" "Oh yes sir, I understand! 'Ow much 'ave you give me? Why, here's forty-five, fifty, sixty, Lord! "Put it away, Adam, forget all about it till to-morrow, and not a word, mind!" "A hundred pound!" gasped Adam, "Lord! Oh I won't speak of it, trust me, Mr. Belloo, sir!
Too late now, any hope of retreat, she had deliberately chosen her course, and must follow it to the end. "Begging your pardon, Miss Anthea mam !" She started, and glancing round, espied Adam. "Oh! you startled me, Adam, what is it?" "Begging your pardon, Miss Anthea, but is it true as Mr. Belloo be gone away for good?" "Yes, Adam."
Belloo sir, I wonder what Miss Anthea will say?" with which remark he strode off with the two chairs to set them in their accustomed places. Seldom indeed had the old hall despite its many years, seen such a running to and fro, heard such a patter of flying feet, such merry voices, such gay, and heart-felt laughter.
Whereupon, very suddenly, Adam appeared, bare-armed from the stables, who, looking from Bellew's radiant face to Miss Anthea's shy eyes, threw back his head, vented his great laugh, and was immediately solemn again. "Miss Anthea," said he, wringing and twisting at his hat, "or I think I should say, Mrs. Belloo mam, there ain't no word for it! least-ways not as I know on, nohow.
Lord sir! many's the time as I've watched that theer blessed b'y a-seekin', an' a-searchin', a pokin' an' a pryin' round the place a-lookin' for 'is fortun', but, Lord bless my eyes an' limbs, sir! I never thought as he'd find nothin'." "Why, of course not, Adam." "Ah! but that's jest where I were mistook, Mr. Belloo, sir, because 'e did." "Did what, Adam?"
Belloo sir, an' Master Georgy!" "Well, Adam, how are the hops?" "'Ops sir, there never was such 'ops, no, not in all Kent, sir. All I'm wishin' is that they was all safe picked, an' gathered. W'ot do you make o' them clouds, sir, over there, jest over the p'int o' the oast-house?" Bellew turned, and cast a comprehensive, sailor-like glance in the direction indicated.
Belloo sir," he went on, seeing Bellew was silent still, "Miss Anthea be that proud, an' independent that she'd never ha' took your money, sir, if I hadn't told her that there lie, so that's why I did tell her that here lie." "I see," nodded Bellew, "I see! yes, you did quite right. You acted for the best, and you did quite right, Adam, yes, quite right" "Thankee sir!"
"No, Adam," he was saying, "depend upon it, there is nothing like exercise, and, of all exercise, give me a pitch-fork." "Why, as to that, Mr. Belloo, sir," Adam retorted, "I say so be it, so long as I ain't near the wrong end of it, for the way you do 'ave of flourishin' an' a whirlin' that theer fork, is fair as-tonishin', I do declare it be."
Belloo sir," said Adam, at this juncture, speaking from beneath an inlaid table which he held balanced upon his head, "it ain't as if this was jest ordinary furnitur' sir, ye see she kind-er feels as it be all part o' Dapplemere Manor, as it used to be called, it's all been here so long, that them cheers an' tables has come to be part o' the 'ouse, sir.
"Lord!" exclaimed the singer, breaking off suddenly, "be that you, Mr. Belloo, sir?" "Yea, in good sooth, Adam, the very same, but you sing, Adam?" "Ah! I sing, Mr. Belloo, sir, an' if you ax me why, then I tell you because I be 'appy-'earted an' full o' j-o-y, j'y, sir. The mortgage be paid off at last, Mr.
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