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"He's so much impressed by his own ugliness," Mary Cobley would tell them, "that he never would rise to the thought of axing a female to take him; though I tell the man that the better sort of woman ain't prone to pick a husband, like a bird picks a cherry, for the outside."
"Because if he'd saved a little money he wouldn't be doing rough work for another man." Milly saw the force of that and said no more at the time. And then Cobley spoke to his mother one night and owned to a gathering dejection. "I like to see a job through," he said, "and I'm casting around pretty far and wide for a man that might be good enough for that girl.
"Your son's wishful to marry Milly Boon a good bit against her will, by all accounts; but you be on his side, naturally, and want to see him happy, so you've put a loaded pistol to old Mrs. Pedlar's head and told her if her niece don't take your boy, she's got to quit her home." Bewes stared. "What business might that be of yours, Jack Cobley?" he asked, and the visitor explained.
I'm nearly off my head! Good evening, m'm. What's all this fuss about the washing? MISS COBLEY: Please, m'm, the seven collars, what you sent I mean the seven what was marked was wrong, And mother says as you'd have had the washing Only there weren't but five, and would you mind.... Go back and tell your mother there were seven. And if she sends home five she pays for two. So there!
And, because I'm so sure, after due consideration of the pair of 'em, I be come afore you to make suggestions." "Perhaps you want her yourself, Jack?" suggested Nicholas, pulling his grey beard and shutting one eye. "Me!" laughed Cobley, much amused. "Do a toad want a bird of Paradise? No, no.
But when it became known that Lord Liscombe meant to bring Philip Vaughan into Parliament for Bilton there was great dissatisfaction. "What a shame," people said, "to disturb old Mr. Cobley, who has sat so long and voted so steadily!
But she heard nought of the purchaser, and the mystery grew, because Mrs. Cobley heard nought either; and then there come a nice open sort of morning with just a promise of another spring in the air, and when Milly looked out of her chicket window, who should she see in their ruinous cabbage patch but Jack with his tools going leisurely to work to clean the dirty ground.
And Mary Cobley knew something else also, which she couldn't very well tell her son till now, so she'd kept her secret; but when she heard as he was busy finding somebody as might be good enough for Milly Boon, the woman in her broke loose and she said a thing she'd never said afore. "Of all zanies, you be the biggest in the parish," said Mrs.
But Cobley knew very well there's a sort of men very sporting in the open among their neighbours and very much the reverse when they are out of sight; and he also knew there's a sort very frank and honest to their fellow men, but very much the reverse to their fellow women. So he just took stock and had speech with Richard off and on and heard the gossip and figured up Dick pretty well.
"First, because he loves her with all his heart, I believe, and it would be a natural thing, them being the finest young man and woman in the place; and second, because everything points for it," declared Mrs. Cobley.
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