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I was sure, though he had never looked directly towards us, that he had heard every syllable Miss March said to me. The 'squire called across the room, in a patronising tone: "My good fellow that is, ahem! I say, young Halifax?" "Were you addressing me, Mr. Brithwood?" "I was. I want a quiet word or two between ourselves." "Certainly." They stood face to face.
"I hope I am a gentleman." Words could not describe my father's horrified astonishment. "Oh, lad!" he cried; "poor, misguided lad! the Lord have mercy upon thee!" John smiled his mind evidently full of other things. Abel Fletcher's anger grew. "And thee wants to hang on to the tail of other 'gentlemen, such as Richard Brithwood, forsooth! a fox-hunting, drinking, dicing fool!"
And the old man blessed her with tears. "I hardly like taking thee out this wet day, Phineas but it is a comfort to have thee." Perhaps it was, for John was bent on a trying errand. He was going to communicate to Mr. Brithwood of the Mythe, Ursula's legal guardian and trustee, the fact that she had promised him her hand him, John Halifax, the tanner.
"Did you ever expect to see me again?" "No, certainly I did not. And I would almost rather not see you now, if " "If Richard Brithwood did not approve of it? Bah! what notions you always had of marital supremacy. So, ma chere, you are going to be married yourself, I hear?" "Yes." "Why, how quietly you seem to take it! The news perfectly electrified me this morning.
"No hesitation in a matter of right and wrong. Gentlemen, and my worthy friends, will you hear Mr. Oldtower, whom you all know? Herbert, are these accusations true?" "I am afraid so," said the grave young man, more gravely. "Mr. Brithwood, I regret extremely that this discovery was not made before. What do you purpose doing?" "By the Lord that made me, nothing!
"Ay, ay, 'squire;" and the old fellow, who had some humour in him, pulled his hair again civilly to Mr. Brithwood. "Wait till I ha' got shut o' these." And he counted out of his ragged pockets a handful of guineas. Poor fellow! how bright they looked; those guineas, that were food, clothing, life. "Three was paid to I, two to Will Horrocks, and the rest to Matthew Hales.
She thinks nobody dare do anything ill to her husband not even Richard Brithwood." "He is a " "Hush, dear! we will not talk about him; since, for all his threats, he can do us no harm, and, poor man! he never will be half as happy as we." That was true. So Mr.
Jessop's saying pointedly and aloud, though with a smile playing under the corners of her good little mouth: "Mr. Halifax, it is kind of you to come; Lady Caroline Brithwood will be delighted. She longs to make your acquaintance." After that everybody began to talk with extraordinary civility to Mr. Halifax.
But John had taken it John stood firm at the wheel. Perhaps, with God's blessing, he might guide us safe to land. I had not time to say more, when, with its pretty grey ponies, the curricle once more passed our way. Two ladies were in it: one leaned out and bowed. Presently a lacquey came to beg Mr. Halifax would come and speak with Lady Caroline Brithwood. "Shall you go, John?"
Me comprenez vous?" "Madame, je vous comprends." Her ladyship looked surprised. French was not very common among the honest trading class, or indeed any but the higher classes in England. "But," John continued, "I must dissent from Lady Caroline Brithwood, if she mingles the English people with 'le peuple Francais. They are a very different class of beings."
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