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Updated: June 2, 2025
The maid, Nancy Pyrle, was hustled off to 'wait on Miss Vancourt upstairs, and don't be clumsy with your 'ands, whatever you do! Primmins, the butler, was sent to remove the tea-things from the morning-room, at which command he turned round somewhat indignantly, asking 'who are you a-orderin' of; don't you think I know my business? Spruce himself, unhappily coming by chance to the kitchen door to ask if it was really true that Miss Vancourt had arrived, was shrilly told to 'go along and mind his own business, and so it happened that when Bainton appeared, charged with the Reverend John Walden's message concerning the Five Sisters, he might as well have tried to obtain an unprepared audience with the King, as to see or speak with the lady of the Manor.
With the disappearance of the Maypole into the further meadow, Bainton likewise disappeared on his round of duty, which, as he had declared, moved him 'in sundry places, and for a little while the dove-like spirit of Spring brooded in restful silence over the quiet orchard and garden.
I'll send Bainton with a verbal message; he is sure to give a quaint and pleasant turn to it, he knew her father, and I didn't; it will be much better to send Bainton." Having made this resolve, his brow cleared, and he was more satisfied. Tearing up the last half sheet of wasted note-paper he had spoilt in futile attempts to address the lady of the Manor, he laughed at his failures.
Welcome 'ome to Squire's gel! Welcome 'ome!" "Shut up, Josey!" said Bainton, though kindly enough "You'll soon part with all the breath you've got in yer body if ye makes a screech owl of yerself like that in the night air! You's done enough for once in a way, keep easy an' quiet while we carries ye back to the village ye weighs a hundred pound 'eavier if ye're noisy, ye do reely now!"
Nebbie also knew that presently that same master of his would return again to make the circuit of the garden in the company of Bainton, according to custom, and as he stretched his four hairy paws out comfortably, and blinked his brown eyes at a portly blackbird prodding in the turf for a worm within a stone's throw of him, he was evidently considering whether it would be worth his while, as an epicurean animal, to escort these two men on their usual round on such a warm pleasant morning.
"Look 'ee 'ere, Tummas," said one short, thick-set man, addressing Bainton; "Look 'ee 'ere thy measter baint oop to mark this marnin'! Seemed as if he couldn't find the ways nor the meanin's o' the Lord nohow!" Bainton slowly removed his cap from his head and looked thoughtfully into the lining, as though seeking for inspiration there, before replying.
"She was took away arter the old Squire was killed, worn't she?" asked Bainton, who was drinking in all the information he could, in order to have something to talk about to his master, when the opportunity offered itself. "Ay! ay!
Walden, oh, sir, I can't tell you! I can't indeed! it's about Miss Vancourt oh poor dear little lady! oh-oh! I can't I can't say it! I can't!" "Don't ye try, my gel!" said Bainton, gently "You ain't fit for't, don't ye try! Which I might a'known a woman's 'art couldn't abear it, nor a man's neither!"
That's 'ow 'tis, Mr. Bennett!" and Bainton looked into the lining of his cap as was his wont before he put it on his head "I believe all you say right enough, an' it don't put me out nohow I've seen too much o' natur to be shook off my 'old on the Almighty for there's no worm wot ain't sure of a rose or some kind o' flower an' fruit somewhere, though m'appen the poor blind thing don't know where to find it.
"Who has struck Spruce?" Bainton hesitated. It was an exceedingly awkward position. He looked appealingly, as was his wont, up into the air and among the highest branches of the 'Five Sisters' for 'Passon Walden, but naturally could not discover him at that elevation. "Come, come!" said Maryllia, imperatively "You are not all deaf, I hope! Give me a straight answer, one of you!
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