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Updated: June 28, 2025
You might call Isaac rather a fool, what with his religion, and 'extempry prayin, an that, but all the same Bolderfield thought of him with a kind of uneasy awe. If ever there was a man secure of the next world it was Isaac Costrell.
He seated himself in her place, and stooped to look at the box. On the inside of the lid was pasted a discoloured piece of paper, and on the paper was written, in a round, laborious hand, the name, 'John Bolderfield. 'My blazes! he said, slowly, his bloodshot eyes opening wider than ever. 'It's old John's money. So yo've been after it, eh? He turned to her with a grin, one hand on the box.
'Yes; she said she felt her feet a-gettin cold and I must run. But I don't believe she's no worse. John stood looking down, ruefully. Suddenly the figure in the bed turned. 'John, said a comparatively strong voice which made Bolderfield start, 'John Muster Drew says you'd oughter put it in the bank. You'll be a fool if yer don't, 'ee says.
What troubled him all through the last scene was the thought that now he should never know why she was so set against "Bessie's 'avin' it." It was, indeed, the general opinion in Clinton Magna that John Bolderfield or "Borrofull," as the village pronounced it, took his sister-in-law's death too lightly. The women especially pronounced him a hard heart.
His temper, perhaps, was "nassty," which might pull him down a little when the last account came to be made up; and it could not be said that his elder children had come to much, for all his piety. But, on the whole, Bolderfield only wished he stood as well with the Powers talked about in chapel every Sunday as Isaac did.
'I mind well as when I were a lad, sixteen year ago, my fayther borrered a bit o' money off John Bolderfield, to buy a cow with an there was 'arf of it in them 'arf-crowns. Those standing near overheard. Bessie and the girl stopped quarrelling. The landlord, startled, cast a sly eye in Bessie's direction. She came up to the bar. 'What's that yer sayin? she demanded. The man repeated his remark.
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