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"Your wife, Ursula Halifax, having some time since attained the age fixed by her late father as her majority, I will, within a month after date, pay over to your order all moneys, principal and interest, accruing to her, and hitherto left in my hands, as trustee, according to the will of the late Henry March, Esquire. "I am, sir, "Yours, etc., "RICHARD BRITHWOOD." "Wonderful wonderful!"
She performed the ordinary courtesies, and then went over to talk with Mr. Brithwood. In their conversation I sought in vain the name of Ursula. So it ended the sickening expectation which I had read in the lad's face all day. He would not see her perhaps it was best. Yet my heart bled when I looked at him. But such thoughts could not be indulged in now, especially as Mrs.
Brithwood furiously exclaimed that it was a falsehood. "The fellow does not belong to this neighbourhood at all. He was picked up in Norton Bury streets a beggar, a thief, for all I know." "You do know very well, Mr. Brithwood. Sir Ralph, I was never either a beggar or a thief. I began life as a working lad a farm-labourer until Mr. Fletcher, the tanner, took me into his employ."
Brithwood, I was not speaking of myself, but of the lady whose message I have the honour to bring you." "That lady, sir, has chosen to put herself away from her family, and her family can hold no further intercourse with her," said the 'squire, loftily. "I am aware of that," was the reply, with at least equal hauteur. "Are you?
"He belongs to this your town you must have heard of him, perhaps met him." "I have more than had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Brithwood, but he has doubtless forgotten it." "By Jove! I have. What might your name be, sir?" "John Halifax." "What, Halifax the tanner?" "The same." "Phew!" He began a low whistle, and turned on his heel. John changed colour a little.
It ought to be doing something, with the new century it began this year. Did it not seem very odd at first to have to write '1800'?" "John, what a capital hand you write now!" "Do I! That's somebody's credit. Do you remember my first lesson on the top of the Mythe?" "I wonder what has become of those two gentlemen?" "Oh! did you never hear? Young Mr. Brithwood is the 'squire now.
Oldtower, with his accustomed gravity, accompanied by a not unbecoming modesty, said, that in this conjuncture, and being personally unacquainted with both Mr. Brithwood and the Earl of Luxmore, he felt no hesitation in accepting the honour offered to him. "That being the case," said his father, though evidently annoyed, "I have only to fulfil my duty as public officer to the Crown."
We were engaged a week ago, with the full knowledge and consent of Doctor and Mrs. Jessop, her nearest friends." "And of yours?" asked Mr. Brithwood, with as much sarcasm as his blunt wits could furnish him. "I have no relatives." "So I always understood. And that being the case, may I ask the meaning of the visit? Where are your lawyers, your marriage settlements, hey? I say, young man ha! ha!
Lord! what a jolly life I should have missed! You got no reward, though. You threw away the guinea I offered you; come, I'll make it twenty guineas to-morrow." The insult was too much. "Sir, you forget that whatever we may have been, to-night we meet as equals." "Equals!" "As guests in the same house most certainly for the time being, equals." Richard Brithwood stared, literally dumb with fury.
At this juncture, Ursula told Luxmore about the behaviour of his kinsman Brithwood, with the result that his lordship went to Brithwood and made him turn over the money to her.
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