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Then there was meat to salt while it could be had; for, in default of turnips and mangold-wurzel, there was a great slaughtering of barren cows as soon as the summer herbage failed; and good housewives stored up their Christmas piece of beef in pickle before Martinmas was over.
The two young curates talked a little aside during these discussions, which had imperfect interest for their unbeneficed minds; and the transcendental and near-sighted Mr. Baird seemed to listen somewhat abstractedly, knowing little more of potatoes and mangold-wurzel than that they were some form of the 'Conditioned'. 'What a hobby farming is with Lord Watling! said Mr.
He tells us he only obtained the mastery of his pen by toiling faithfully, but inborn in him was the art of talking. Even as a petti-coated child, we read he gesticulated to aid his glib tongue. He will discourse with you of morals, music, marbles, men, manners, meta-physics, medicine, mangold-wurzel, with equal insight into essentials and equal pregnancy and felicity of utterance."
Pole's infant park that if devoted to mangold-wurzel it would be productive and would pay: whereas now it was not ornamental and was waste. "Sir Twickenham calculates," said Mr. Pole, "that we should have a crop of eh?" "The average?" Sir Twickenham asked, on the evident upward mounting of a sum in his brain.
Better women than I would be proud of the honour, for when I read your nice long speeches on mangold-wurzel, and such like topics, at the Casterbridge Farmers' Club, I do feel it an honour, I assure you. But my answer is just the same as before. I will not try to explain what, in truth, I cannot explain my reasons; I will simply say that I must decline to be married to you.
Fellowes took the lead in the conversation, which set strongly in the direction of mangold-wurzel and the rotation of crops; for Mr. Fellowes and Mr. Cleves cultivated their own glebes. Mr. Ely, too, had some agricultural notions, and even the Rev. Archibald Duke was made alive to that class of mundane subjects by the possession of some potato-ground.
Then there was meat to salt while it could be had; for, in default of turnips and mangold-wurzel, there was a great slaughtering of barren cows as soon as the summer herbage failed; and good housewives stored up their Christmas piece of beef in pickle before Martinmas was over.
And then, with a relaxing look upon Cornelia: "Perhaps you might have fifteen, sixteen, perhaps for the first year; or, say you see, the exact acreage is unknown to me. Say roughly, ten thousand sacks the first year." "Of what?" inquired Cornelia. "Mangold-wurzel," said the baronet. She gazed about her. Mr. Barrett was gone. "But, no doubt, you take no interest in such reckonings?"
With good wishes as in former times, I am, your faithful friend, Darton dropped the letter hopelessly. Beyond the negative, there was just a possibility of sarcasm in it 'nice long speeches on mangold-wurzel' had a suspicious sound. However, sarcasm or none, there was the answer, and he had to be content.
And then, with a relaxing look upon Cornelia: "Perhaps you might have fifteen, sixteen, perhaps for the first year; or, say you see, the exact acreage is unknown to me. Say roughly, ten thousand sacks the first year." "Of what?" inquired Cornelia. "Mangold-wurzel," said the baronet. She gazed about her. Mr. Barrett was gone. "But, no doubt, you take no interest in such reckonings?"
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