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Lightowler's conduct. 'It's very silly of both of them, she said; 'and then to drag you into the quarrel, too! You know, old Mr. Humpage is not really my uncle only one of those relations that sound like a prize puzzle when you try to make them out. Dolly always calls him Uncle Anthony he's her godfather. But I wish you hadn't offended him, Mr. Ashburn, I do really.
An hour or so later a coach clattered into the yard, and out of it stepped a short, lean man in black, with a very evil face and a crooked eye, who bawled out that he was Joseph Ashburn of Castle Marleigh, a friend of the Lord General's, and that he must have horses on the instant to proceed upon his journey to London.
Don't you know that by the last arrival from England have come accounts of a bad harvest, and that wheat has taken a sudden rise?" "No, I don't know any such a thing," returned the astonished Ashburn. "Well, it's so. Where is your newspaper? Haven't you read it? I got mine on Friday evening, and saw the news.
"Oh, yes, it's as good as ever, and sometimes I think much better than it was. It's a great pleasure to read it. But I must retrench at every point, and then I don't see how I'm to get along. Wheat's down to ninety cents, and falling daily." "But the paper is only two dollars a year, Mr. Ashburn." "I know. But two dollars are two dollars. However, it's no use to talk, Mr.
I feel considerably harsher just now, I think, he said. 'Good-bye then, Mabel. By the way, Ashburn, he added in a slightly lowered tone, 'there is something I have to say to you. 'I know, muttered Mark doggedly. 'Are you going to say it now? 'No, not now, he answered; 'you must meet me where shall we say? I don't know this place here?
'Do you know that I've just begun to think nothing would give me greater satisfaction now than to hear that the rumour you told me of was an accomplished fact. 'And that Mabel was engaged to Mr. Ashburn? Do you really mean it? cried Gilda, and her face cleared again. 'I really mean it, said Caffyn smiling; and it is just possible that he really did.
I don't know how it is, but I feel an interest in you, Ashburn; perhaps I want somebody to be sorry for me when I'm gone, anyway, I I wish you'd let me see you through any money difficulties till you're fairly started it won't be long now, I'll wager, you can treat it as a loan if you prefer it. I want you to give yourself a chance at the Bar. Don't refuse me now, or I shall take it unkindly.
"I shall be ruined," he said at home, and carried a long face while abroad. When his wife and daughters asked for money with which to get their fall and winter clothing, he grumbled sadly, gave them half what they wanted, and said they must retrench. A day or two afterwards, the collector of the "Post" came along and presented his bill. Ashburn paid it in a slow, reluctant manner, and then said
'It must be, said Mark, rising, 'I have kept you too long already. 'If you really must go, said Mr. Fladgate, not using the words in their conventional sense of polite dismissal. 'But, Mr. Ashburn, are you quite sure that this interview might not be saved from coming to nothing, as it seems about to do? Might not a word or two from you set things right again?
This year he had sown double the wheat he had ever sown before, and, instead of raising a thousand bushels of potatoes, as he had generally done, only planted about an acre in that vegetable, the product of which was about one hundred and fifty bushels. Unluckily for Mr. Ashburn, his calculations did not turn out well.
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