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Berkins would move on, and that the inquisitive little man would find himself obliged to follow, but chance was against him, for Berkins, with his guests around him, stood listening to the discussion. "You mean to say that these peaches were grown without heat. I wouldn't mind giving you five-and-twenty pounds for the recipe for doing it."
Berkins is a man of tact, however you may laugh at him for having shot your partridge. He spoke to your Aunt Mary, or rather she spoke to him. Ah, clever woman, your Aunt Mary, wonderful manner, wonderful will, when she wants a thing done it must be done.
Berkins if she had not been upset by Sally." "Upset by Sally, what do you mean?" "I told you that Sally tries to turn Berkins into ridicule, laughs at his beard among other things." "I must see Grace about this," said Aunt Mary; "you must excuse my laughing, but Sally is often very droll."
"I don't care for him. I don't care if I never saw him again it was Fanny who was my friend. Some nice people have come to live in that corner house a young man, who is learning farming. Mr. Berkins insists on father not allowing us to visit any one in the Southdown Road, and Mr. Berkins can turn father round his finger, he is so much richer. I'm not allowed to see Fanny at the Manor House.
I shall bleed to death if you don't." "Shall I tie it up for you?" "If those girls there would only fetch a doctor." Mr. Brookes could not refrain from foolish laughter, and in a moment of wretched despair he declared that it would be all the same in a hundred years time a remark which would not have failed to irritate Berkins if he had not fainted.
Brookes had sympathised, but the young people laughed at him and Willy had told a story how he had been to shoot at , and when a partridge got up right in front of his gun, Berkins turned round and shot it, exclaiming: "That's the way to bring them down!"
Mr. Berkins is not satisfied with the society we see." "The Southdown Road you mean," interrupted Mr. Brookes, "and very properly, too." "And father and he cannot agree upon money matters, and I don't like a beard " "You never objected to a beard until Sally put you against it." "Yes, I did, father; I always told you "
"I've quite enough to do with my own affairs; I've had bad luck enough as it is, without running into new difficulties of my own accord." "If she refuses Berkins, father'll never get over it. I wish you would speak to her." "No, don't ask me. I never meddle in other people's affairs. I've had trouble enough. Now I want to dress."
Willy was sensible that the scene was pleasant and pretty, and remembering he was fond of birds, he thrust his hands deeper in his pockets and walked slowly down the drive, his toes well turned out. "I wonder if they met Berkins at church?" was the question he put to himself gravely. "What a cad he is!
And now whenever his name was mentioned, Willy thought of this incident, so very typical did it seem to him of the man, and he liked to twit his father with it. But Mr. Brookes could not be brought to see the joke, and he fell back on the plausible and insidious argument that, notwithstanding his manners, Berkins was worth eight thousand a year.
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