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"That's modest!" said the Squire; "but what are you crying for?" "Oh, it's such a poor horse! Such a very old, poor horse!" cried Amabel. And from the window Mr. Ammaby was able to confirm her statements. It was the Cheap Jack's white horse, which he had been trying to persuade the landlord to buy as a cab-horse.
In her alarm, Lady Louisa implored him to sell the property and buy one in Ireland, which was Lady Craikshaw's native country; and the list she contrived to run up of the drawbacks to the Ammaby estate would have driven a temper less stolid than her husband's to distraction.
You will ruin us with your shillings and half crowns." "Bless my soul, Ammaby," said the Rector, pausing with an eggshell transfixed upon his spoon, "shillings and half crowns don't go far in the present condition of our households. There are not ten families whose beds are not burnt. What do you propose to do?" "I'll tell you, when I have first confessed that my ideas are not entirely original.
The other three were the parish doctor, Squire Ammaby, and the schoolmaster. On the very first rumor of the epidemic, Lady Louisa had carried off Amabel, and had gone with Lady Craikshaw to Brighton. Both the ladies were indignant with the Squire's obstinate resolve to remain amongst his tenants.
And a sudden gust of wind coming sharply down the way by which he went caught the fragments of Jan's picture, and whirled them broadcast through the wood. Squire Ammaby was the most good-natured of men.
At first Amabel made desperate and knee-grazing efforts to reclimb the wall, and, failing, burst into tears, and danced, and called aloud on all her protectors, from the Squire to Miles. No one coming, she restrained her tears, and by a real effort of that "pluck" for which the Ammaby race is famous began to run along the wall to find a lower point for climbing.
"I think I can, sir, this evening; after a feed and some rest." The white horse had suddenly become a centre of interest in the inn- yard. Everybody, from the landlord to the stable-boy, felt its legs, and patted it, and suggested various lines of treatment. Before he drove away, Mr. Ammaby overheard the landlord saying, "He be a sharp hand, is the Squire.
Then that large class the shiftless was now doubly large, and there were widows and orphans in abundance, and there was hardly a bed or a blanket in the place. "I have come," said Mr. Ammaby, joining the Rector as he sat at breakfast, "to beg you, in the interests of the village, to check the flow of that fount of benevolence which springs eternal in the clerical pocket.
And only to the nurse and the windmiller's family was it known that Miss Amabel Adeline Ammaby had been dipped in the mill-hopper. After the nurse and baby had left the mill, Mrs. Lake showered extra caresses upon the little Jan. It had given her a strange pleasure to see him in contact with the Squire's child.
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