Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 2, 2025
Our church would be jes' spoilt with a lot o' trails o' weed round it but you mark my wurrd! Miss Vancourt will be dekratin' the Saint in the coffin at 'Arvest 'Ome wi' corn and pertaters an' vegetable marrers, all a-growin' and a-blowin' afore we knows it. There ain't no sense o' fitness in the feminine natur!" Mrs. Bainton laughed good-naturedly.
"Wishin' ye long days o' peace an' plenty," said Bainton, between his appreciative sips; "But as fur as the trees is consarned, you'll'scuse me, Miss, for sayin' it, but the time bein' short, I don't see 'ow it's goin' to be 'elped, Oliver Leach bein' away, and no post delivered at his 'ouse till eight o'clock " "I will settle all that," said Maryllia "You must leave everything to me.
"Mebbe Passon Walden was thinkin' of Oliver Leach," suggested Bainton with a slight twinkle in his eye; "And 'ow m'appen we'd best be all of us meek and quiet when he's by. It might be so, Mr. Buggins, Passon's a rare one to guess as 'ow the wind blows nor'- nor'-east sometimes in the village, for all that it's a warm day and the peas comin' on beautiful. Eh, now, Mr. Buggins?"
"Ain't nothin' goin' to be done?" he faltered anxiously "Nothin' to say as 'ow it's all a lie " "Nothing on my part!" said Walden, quickly and sternly, "The best answer to such low gossip and slander is silence. You understand?" His look was a command, and Bainton felt it to be such.
Stepping out on the path again, he looked about him and caught a glimpse of a stooping, bulky form in weather- beaten garments, planting something in one of the borders at a little distance. "Bainton!" he called. The figure slowly raised itself, and as slowly turned its head. "Sir!" "Just come here and tie this rose up, will you?"
Walden is out, mim. Then, when Walden, according to the laws of etiquette, had to return the lady's visit, Bainton again assisted him by watching and waiting till he could inform him, ''as 'ow he'd seen that blessed old Poreham woman drivin' out with 'er fam'ly to Riversford.
He felt, but what he felt is quite immaterial. And so far as his daughter was concerned, she, as Bainton expressed it, had 'gone a' visitin'. The Ittlethwaites, of Ittlethwaite Park, in all the glory of their Magnum Chartus forebears were present, as were the Mandeville-Porehams while to Julian Adderley was given the honour of being Walden's 'best man. He, as the music of the wedding voluntary poured from the organ, through the flower-scented air, wondered doubtfully whether poetic inspiration would ever assist him in such wise as to enable him to express in language the exquisite sweetness of Maryllia's face, as, standing beside the man whose tender and loyal love she was surer of than any other possession in this world she repeated in soft accents the vow: "to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey till death do us part!"
I'm afraid I am rather a trespasser here! but I have loved these old trees for many years, and I came up this morning, having heard what your orders were from my gardener Bainton, to see that those orders were properly carried out, and also to save possible disturbance " He broke off. Maryllia, while he spoke, had eyed him somewhat critically, and now favoured him with a charming smile.
Walden stopped abruptly. "What do you mean?" "'Tain't for me to say;" and Bainton pretended to be very busy in pulling up one or two plantains from the lawn; "But I tells ye true, Passon, the Five Sisters ain't goin' to be laid low without a shindy!" John's eyes sparkled. He scented battle, and was not by any means displeased.
An' I was fair mazed over that 'oley bit, but I found out all about it! hor-hor-hor!" and Bainton began to laugh with exceeding delight at his own perspicuity "A few minutes' gossip with old Missis Tapple at the post-office did it! hor-hor-hor! for she told me, bless 'er heart! as 'ow Miss Vancourt 'ad given it t'ye for fun, as a sort o' reward like for sendin' off some telegrams for 'er!
Word Of The Day
Others Looking