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Flora will be glad to talk with you, and I'll be in for supper soon." George thanked him, and did as he suggested. He was beginning to find pleasure in the conversation of Flora Grant. It was two hours later when he took his leave and the farmer went out with him. "I don't know what Hardie's doing, but I've an idea that Mrs. Nelson means to make some move at the Farmers' Club fair," he said.
By then he had folded and addressed it, she returned and brought her work: charity children's great cloaks: her mother had cut them, and in the height of the fashion, to Jane Hardie's dismay; and Julia was binding, hooding, etcetering them. How demurely she bent her lovely head over her charitable work, while Alfred poured his tale into her ears!
He took both envelopes to me, and asked me to read them out in turn: I did, and mamma's said fourteen thousand pounds: and his said fourteen thousand pounds. Mamma looked such a look at me. "Then he turned to me: 'Miss Dodd, do you remember that night you and I met at Richard Hardie's door?
The Bazalgettes led a very quiet life for the next fortnight, for Mrs. Bazalgette was husbanding invitations for Mr. Hardie's return. Mrs. Bazalgette yawned many times during this barren period, but with considerate benevolence she shielded Lucy from ennui.
Green, by this time, knew all Mr. Hardie's out-of-door habits; and assured them that at ten o'clock he would walk up and down the road for at least half an hour, the night being dry. It wanted about a quarter to ten, when Mrs. Dodd came down, and proposed supper to the travellers. Sampson declined it for the present; and said they had work to do at eleven.
"No" said another, "he didn't quite shed it; his pride wouldn't let him." "So he decanted it, and put it by for supper, suggested Edward, and puffed. "None of your chaff, Six. He had a gulp or two, and swallowed the rest by main force." "Don't you talk: you can swallow anything, it seems." "Well, I believe it," said one of Hardie's own set. "Dodd doesn't know him as we do.
They told him they knew nothing; but that David had been wrecked on the coast of France, and had fallen down senseless in the street: a clerk of Mr. Hardie's had recognised him, and brought him home: so Alfred said. "Then the cause is mintil," said Sampson, "unless he got a blow on the hid in bein' wrecked." He then examined David's head carefully, and found a long scar.
Keir Hardie's questions are examples of suppressio veri and suggestio falsi. His later revocation of this judgment does not alter its value as objective evidence. "After Grey's refusal, Prince Lichnowsky pressed him to formulate England's conditions for her neutrality.
Thus a gesture, so to speak, sowed the first seed of downright disunion in Richard Hardie's house disunion, a fast-growing plant, when men set it in the soil of the passions. Alfred, unlike Julia, had no panacea. Had any lips, except perhaps hers, told him that "to be good is to be happy here below," he would have replied: "Negatur; contradicted by daily experience."
If he reflected, he would know that only one person has once decided to use the word, but he does not reflect, and the effect on him is the same as if a hundred persons had used it independently of each other. 'Another German Insult, 'Keir Hardie's Crime, 'Balfour Backs Down, are intended to stick and do stick in the mind as ready-made opinions.
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