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As for imagination and poetry, Delafield, with a mind that was either positive or mystical the mind, one might say, of the land-agent or the saint failed to see where they came in. Family tradition, no doubt, carries a thrill.
That land-agent used to tell Dryfoos to get out to Europe with his money and see life a little, or go and live in Washington, where he could be somebody; but Dryfoos wouldn't, and he kept listening to the talk there, and all of a sudden he caught on.
But he did not infer that large properties in land were bad in themselves; for in England he saw that the landowners were the really energetic and improving class. He naturally looked at the problem from the point of view of an intelligent land-agent.
That land-agent used to tell Dryfoos to get out to Europe with his money and see life a little, or go and live in Washington, where he could be somebody; but Dryfoos wouldn't, and he kept listening to the talk there, and all of a sudden he caught on.
Permit me to introduce Mr. Adrian Willes, by vocation a composer and singer of songs, and "contrapuntally," as he would explain Anthony Craford's housemate, monitor, land-agent, and man of business. Anthony sighed. "I 'll tell you what I admire," he answered drily. "I admire the transports of delight with which you hail my unexpected home-coming.
Seigne comes of a French Protestant stock long ago planted in Ireland, and his Gallic blood doubtless helps him to handle the practical problems daily submitted in these days to an Irish land-agent problems very different, as he thinks, from those with which an Irish agent had to deal in the days before 1870.
'My good man, what are you fishing for? 'A land-agent, answered Isaac Walton. 'A land-agent? repeated the rector, misdoubting his ears. The saturnine angler made no answer. 'And has a gentleman been drowned here? he persisted. The man only looked at him across the stream, and nodded. 'Eh! and his name, pray? 'Old Nutter, of the Mills, he replied.
If I fixed an earlier day, I should only disappoint you. For many things have to be delicately managed; and among them, the running of a certain cargo, without serious consequence. For that we may trust a certain very skillful youth. For the rest you must trust to a clumsier person, your humble land-agent and surveyor titles inquired into and verified, at a tenth of solicitors' charges."
John, the zealot of an earlier day, was at Oxford, considering the Church; Georgy's career has been announced, and the remaining twin had, with the special predisposition of his family towards financial failure, selected the profession of land-agent, in a country in which peasant-proprietorship was already in the air, and would soon become an accomplished fact.
Well, the man the brute he left her when she got ill but yes, forsook her absolutely! He was a land-agent or something like that, and all very fine to your face, to promise and to pretend just make-believe. When her sickness got worse, off he went with 'Au revoir, my dear I will be back to supper. Supper!
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