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Holt had been brought up to agree with his landlord. He was now beyond measure acerbated, because John Caldigate had not been as yet declared innocent on evidence which was altogether conclusive to himself. The Conservatives were now in power, and nothing seemed so natural to Mr. Holt as that the Home Secretary should keep his landlord in jail because the Caldigates were Liberals. Mr.
But she never mentions John. In writing back I have always sent his love, and have endeavoured to show that I would not recognise any quarrel. 'If I were you, said Robert, 'I would not take him with me when I went. Then the three Caldigates were taken off to Folking. A week passed by and then arrived the day on which it had been arranged that Hester was to go to Chesterton and see her mother.
The Caldigates, both father and son, were gifted with too strong a will to be turned from their purpose by such interference. But a great deal of confusion was occasioned; and aunt Polly among the Shands was regarded as a very wonderful woman indeed. 'Oh, my son, my darling son! she said, weeping on John Caldigate's shoulder.
It was quite understood by everyone at Folking that for the present there was to be no intercourse between the Boltons and the Caldigates. It was understood that there should be no visitors of any kind at Folking, and it had been thought that Mr. Smirkie had forced an entrance in an impertinent manner. But yet it was not possible to send Mrs.
The two Caldigates went out to see their friends as far as the gate, and while they were still within the grounds there came a merry peal from the bells of Netherden church-tower. 'I knew they'd be at it, said Mr. Holt. 'And quite right too, said Mr. Halfacre.
At six o'clock the trial was adjourned till the next day, and the two Caldigates were taken in a fly to a neighbouring inn, at which rooms had been provided for them. Here they were soon joined by Mr. Seely, who explained, however, that he had come merely to make arrangements for the morrow. 'How is it going? asked Caldigate. The question was very natural, but it was one which Mr.
'I hardly think that, Mr. Holt. 'I'm as sure of it as I stands here, said Mr. Holt, slapping his thigh. 'What else 'd they keep 'un in for? It's just like their ways. Mr. Holt was one of a rare class, being a liberal farmer, a Liberal, that is, in politics; as was also Mr. Bromley, a Liberal among parsons, rava avis. The Caldigates had always been Liberal, and Mr.
Halfacre, 'we'd 'ave found the beer at Utterden. There wouldn't have been no grudging the beer, Mr. Brownby, no more than there is in the lower parish; but you can't get up a peal merely on beer. You've got to have bells. While they were still standing at the gate, Mr. Bromley the clergyman joined them, and walked back towards the house with the two Caldigates.
'I will not go to Folking, because I am sure that I should do no good. Hester, no doubt, would be better at your house, much better. There is nothing I would not do to get her back from the Caldigates altogether, if there was a chance of success. But we have no power; none whatever.
'I don't agree with you in the least, said the Squire; 'and I hope I may live to see a dozen little Caldigates running about on that lawn. And there were a few words upstairs on the subject between Mr. Smirkie and his wife for even Mrs. Smirkie and Aunt Polly at last submitted themselves to Dick's energy.