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Yes I thought so!" this as Sir Morton nodded a blandly possessive affirmative "How things change, don't they? Poor old Badsworth! So funny to think you live there! Oh, yes! I'll come over certainly I'll come over, some day!" Thus murmuring polite platitudes, Maryllia bade her visitors adieu.
Walden took the missive, small and neatly folded, and bearing the words 'Badsworth Hall' stamped in gold at the back of the envelope.
Walden!" then shouted the knight of bone-melting prowess; "Much obliged to you, I'm sure!" Walden raised his hat with brief ceremoniousness, and then as the carriage rolled away addressed the Reverend Mr. Leveson, who was throwing himself with hippopotamus-like agility across his bicycle. "You follow, I suppose?" "Yes. I'm lunching at Badsworth Hall.
Rest by the return of 'th' owld Squire's gel' and by the almost simultaneous dismissal of Oliver Leach, had well-nigh abated. A new agent had been appointed, and though Leach had left the immediate vicinity, having employment on Sir Morton Pippitt's lands, he had secured a cottage for himself in the small outlying hamlet of Badsworth.
Badsworth Hall, a fine sixteenth-century pile, had, through the reckless racing and gambling propensities of the last heir, fallen into the hands of the Jews. On the fortunate demise of the young gentleman who had brought it to this untimely end, it was put up for sale with all its contents. In fact, Sir Morton concluded, "Mr.
Let me see!" and she looked up at the ceiling musingly "There was a Badsworth who fought against the Commonwealth, and there was another who was Prime Minister or something of that kind, then there was a Sir Thomas Badsworth who wrote books and another who did some wonderful service for King James the First yes, and there were some lovely women in the family, too I suppose their portraits are all there?
Lady Madeline Badsworth, famous for her beauty in some remote and chivalrous past, gazed down at Sir Morton while he sat at meals, suggesting to the imaginative beholder a world of scorn in her lovely painted eyes, and a heroic young Badsworth who had perished at the battle of Marston Moor, stood proudly out of one of the dark canvases, his gauntleted hand on the hilt of his sword and a smile of pained wrath on his lips, as one who should say, beholding the new possessor of his ancient home 'To such base uses must we come at last!
Gradually the crowd of horses and riders increased, men from the county-town itself, farmers from the more outlying parts of the neighbourhood, and some of the Badsworth Hall tenantry, having arrived too late at Ittlethwaite Park for the actual meet, now came hurriedly galloping up, and among these last was Oliver Leach.
And he realised dolefully that his 'distinguished' guest might, and probably would, soon take his departure from Badsworth Hall, that abode no longer being of any service to him. This meant annihilation to many of Sir Morton's fondest hopes.
He had asserted himself in this kind of autocratic fashion ever since he had purchased Badsworth, when he was still in his forties, and it may be well imagined that at the age of sixty he was not prepared to be thwarted, even in a matter wherein he had no real concern. The former rector of St.
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