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We were very silent, as my lady did not speak, and looked very serious. But this day she did not talk at all. All at once she put her head out of the window. "John Footman," said she, "where are we? Surely this is Hareman's Common." "Yes, an't please my lady," said John Footman, and waited for further speech or orders.
"Are you aware, sir," asked she, "that you have gone far astray from the original subject of conversation? But as you talk of your parish, allow me to remind you that Hareman's Common is beyond the bounds, and that you are really not responsible for the characters and lives of the squatters on that unlucky piece of ground."
They naturally feel that the opinion of one of themselves must have more weight than the words of a man like Job Gregson, who bears a very indifferent character, has been strongly suspected of poaching, coming from no one knows where, squatting on Hareman's Common which, by the way, is extra-parochial, I believe; consequently you, as a clergyman, are not responsible for what goes on there; and, although impolitic, there might be some truth in what the magistrates said, in advising you to mind your own business," said her ladyship, smiling, "and they might be tempted to bid me mind mine, if I interfered, Mr.
"Remember, Job Gregson is a notorious poacher and evildoer, and you really are not responsible for what goes on at Hareman's Common." "What did he say?" she asked in a somewhat hurried manner, as soon as the door was closed "I did not hear." We looked at each other, and then I spoke: "He said, my lady, that 'God help him! he was responsible for all the evil he did not strive to overcome."
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