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'You must have found it hard to accommodate yourselves to them, Mr. Caldigate? 'Not at all. 'Of course we all know that you are a gentleman. 'I am much obliged to you; but I do not know any word that requires a definition so much as that. I am going to work hard to earn my bread; and I suppose these people are going to do the same. 'There always will be some danger in such society, said Mrs.
It was to her an assured fact that John Caldigate was her husband, and she could not realise the idea that, such being the fact, a jury should say that he was not. But let all that be as it might, they two were one; and to adhere to him in every word, in every thought, in every little action, was to her the only line of conduct possible. She heard what Mr.
When she learned that John Caldigate had been engaged to his cousin Julia, of course she made the most of it; and so did Mrs. Bolton. And in this way it came to be reported not only that the young man had been engaged to Miss Babington before he went to Australia, but also that he had renewed his engagement since his return. 'You do not love her, do you? Hester asked him.
And he smoked much and drank somewhat with those who smoked and drank. The awe at first inspired by his university superiority and supposed rank in the world had faded almost into nothing, but by Caldigate, unconsciously, much of this had been preserved. I am not sure that he did not envy his friend, but at any rate he stood aloof. And, in regard to Mrs.
'He doesn't seem to approve of Ahalala, said Dick. 'In course he don't. When a new rush is opened like that, and takes away half the hands a man has about him, and raises the wages of them who remain, in course he don't like it. You see the difference. The Old Stick-in-the-Mud is an established kind of thing. 'It's a paying concern, I suppose, said Caldigate.
Caldigate; and the letter which purported to have been written by the minister to Caldigate, recommending him to be married in some better established township than that existing at Ahalala. She did it well.
That she should have wished to catch you is something; something that the net should itself be so pleasant, with its silken meshes! But the declaration may not the less be true and the fact unpleasant. In the matter of matrimony a man does not wish to be caught; and Caldigate, fond as he was of her, acknowledged that what she said was true.
Robert excuse themselves to that frightened miserable mother if at last it should turn out that John Caldigate was not such as they had represented him to be? But no one could pick a hole in him although many attempts to pick holes were made.
Sir John Joram began by holding, extended in his fingers towards the jury, the envelope which had undoubtedly been addressed by Caldigate to 'Mrs. Caldigate, Ahalala, Nobble, and in which a certain letter had been stated to have been sent by him to her.
'That of course may be true, and if that is the reason, I have nothing more to say. As he spoke he looked in his brother-in-law's face, so as almost to prevent the possibility of continued pretence. 'Well, Caldigate, it isn't the reason altogether, said the other.
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