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"Does he think we was all fools afore he came here?" That was the rallying cry of the enemy, and sanitary reform was thrust out of sight. But Lord Minchampstead, who owned the neighbouring estates of Pentremochyn, on Mark Armsworth's advice, got Tom to make a report on the sanitary state of his cottages, and then acted on the information.
He was a Pole, Michaelowyzcki, or some such name. At least, so he said; but he suspected the man to be really a Russian spy." Grace knew that it was Tom: but she went back to her work again, and in due time went home to England. Home, but not to Aberalva. She presented herself one day at Mark Armsworth's house in Whitbury, and humbly begged him to obtain her a place as servant to old Dr. Thurnall.
Tom was too astonished and puzzled to reply. He had never thought that he had found such favour in his old playfellow Mary Armsworth's eyes. It was a terrible temptation. He knew the plain English of £50,000, and Mark Armsworth's daughter, a good house, a good consulting practice, and, above all, his father to live with him.
Armsworth's, to the last, would do more to manage Mr. Armsworth than the opinions of the whole bench of bishops." "Report's a liar, and you're a puppy! You don't know yet whether it was a pleasant look, or a cross one, lad. But still well, she was an angel, and kept old Mark straighter than he's ever been since: not that he's so very bad, now.
Then the eyes paled and faded; but still they sought for her painfully long after she had buried her head in the coverlet, unable to bear the sight. And so vanished away Elsley Vavasour, poet and genius, into his own place. "Let us pray," said a deep voice from behind the curtain: it was Mark Armsworth's.
A man must die somehow: but it's hard on the poor old father," said Tom. As Tom was packing his scanty carpet-bag next morning, there was a knock at the door. He looked out, and saw Armsworth's clerk. What could that mean? Had the old man determined to avenge the slight, and to do so on his father, by claiming some old debt? There might be many between him and the doctor.
"It is just like your generosity, sir; you have been a brother to my father; and now " "And now I'll be a father to you! Old Mark does nothing by halves." "But, sir, however lucky I should be in possessing Miss Armsworth's heart, what reason have I to suppose that I do so? I never spoke a word to her. I needn't say that she never did to me which " "Of course she didn't, and of course you didn't.
None knew, meanwhile, why the old man needed not to talk of Tom to his friends and neighbours; it was because he and Grace never talked of anything else. So they had lived, and so they had waited, till that week before last Christmas-day, when Mellot and Stangrave made their appearance in Whitbury, and became Mark Armsworth's guests. The week slipped on.
Not finding the old man, he went into Mark Armsworth's, frightening out of her wits a pale, ugly girl of seventeen, whom he discovered to be his old playfellow, Mary. However, she soon recovered her equanimity, and longed to throw her arms round his neck as of old, and was only restrained by the thought that she was grown a great girl now.
Jane, who knows Mark Armsworth's humour, brings in the largest dish in the house, and Mark pulls out of his basket a great three-pound trout. "Aha! my young rover; Old Mark's right hand hasn't forgot its cunning, eh? And this is the month for them; fish all quiet now. When fools go a-shooting, wise men go a-fishing! Eh? Come here, and look me over. How do I wear, eh?
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