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Updated: June 2, 2025
Robert Moore had long been absent from Briarfield, and no one knew why he stayed away. It could not be that he was afraid, for he had shown the utmost fearlessness in bringing to justice and transportation the four ringleaders in the attack on the mill.
"Is it true what mother told me?" he asked, after what seemed a long silence. "What did she tell you?" "That you are engaged to Harry Briarfield." "No!" replied the girl eagerly, "I never was!" "Then is it that young parson?" "No, Tom; who could have told you such lies?"
The Orders in Council are repealed, the blockaded ports are thrown open, and the ringers in Briarfield belfry crack a bell that remains dissonant to this day. Caroline Helstone is in the garden listening to this call to be gay when a hand steals quietly round her waist. "Caroline," says a manly voice. "I have sought you for an audience. The repeal of the Orders in Council saves me.
Then suddenly Tom's heart ceased to beat, for standing before him was Alice Lister. Tom felt his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth. He could not speak, while Alice seemed almost as much wrought upon as he. He looked around as if in expectation of seeing Harry Briarfield, but Harry was nowhere present. What did it mean?
"I don't deny that he's a sharp, capable lad," said George, "and it's easy to see that our Alice is fair gone on him. That's why she had nowt to do wi' the young parson, and wi' Harry Briarfield. Well, I want Alice to be happy, and marriage without love is a poor thing, however much brass you may have. 'Appen I can put Tom in the way of getting on when the war's over.
Matthewson Helstone, the imperious little vicar of Briarfield, to his niece, who, obeyed his unusual request, asked where they were going. "To Fieldhead," replied the Rev. Matthewson Helstone. "We are going to see Miss Shirley Keeldar." "Miss Keeldar! Is she come to Yorkshire?" "She is; and will reside for a time on her property."
"'Appen he will give her the sack now," said a neighbour. "Nay, our Tom wur always a fool. He might have had Alice Lister if he hadn't been such a ninny, but she's engaged to Harry Briarfield now. I wrote and told him about it only last week. I suppose George Lister is fairly suited about it."
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