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Broad invited Brother Bushel, Brother Wainwright the cart-builder and blacksmith, and Brother Scotton the auctioneer, to a private meeting at his own house. In a short speech Mr. Broad said that he had sought a preliminary conference with them to lay before them the relationship in which the Allens stood to the church in Tanner's Lane.
Whenever the words "Worsted Skeynes" were in his mind and that was almost always there rose before him an image defined and concrete, however indescribable; and what ever this image was, he knew that Worsted Scotton spoiled it.
The Squire's irritable glance swept over the unfenced space to right and left, and the thought flashed through his mind: 'Suppose I were to give the beggar those gates, would he would he let me enclose the Scotton again? He looked at that square, bearded man, and the infallible instinct, christened so wickedly by Mr. Paramor, guided him.
He again looked in his hat, shut his mouth fast; again scratched his head; again shook it a little, and with another jerk, as if announcing a conclusion at which he had arrived with great certainty, but after a severe mental effort, he said: "Oi go with Brother Bushel, Oi do." "Well," said Scotton, extending his legs again and gazing at the ceiling, "I must nevertheless be permitted to adhere "
All the morning he had been working at that old vexed subject of Common Rights on Worsted Scotton, which his father had fenced in and taught him once for all to believe was part integral of Worsted Skeynes.
Scotton, too, represented Cowfold urban intelligence as against agricultural rusticity; and another point in his favour was, that he had an office no shop with a wire blind in the window with the words, "Scotton, Land Agent, Auctioneer, and Appraiser," painted on it. On Mr.
Broad, as he had suggested at an earlier stage, was himself to write a letter to the Allens, stating in "general terms" the dissatisfaction felt by the church and its minister with them, and requesting their appearance in the vestry on the day named. Brother Scotton was still malcontent, but as he was in a minority he held his peace.
And so, in the June sunshine, they went, all three, along the leafy lane to Worsted Scotton.... On Tuesday, the day that Mrs. Pendyce had left, the Squire had come in later than usual, for he felt that after their difference of the night before, a little coolness would do her no harm.
It was very seldom indeed that he offered any remarks in public; but this time he could not refrain, and introduced himself as follows: "Brother Scotton says 'praps. I don't say 'praps, when people go settin' class agin class. Praps nobody's windows was broke! Evidence! Hasn't our minister told us George Allen has been to London? He wouldn't tell us an untruth.
Broad, his face shining as he spoke, "we hit upon a third course, the via media, you know, Brother Scotton" Brother Scotton nodded approvingly, as much as to say, "I know; but how about Bushel?"
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