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"Bring Annette to dine with us," he said, on Martha's proposing a visit to the dear young creature. Martha drank a glass of her brother's wine at lunch, and departed on the mission. Annette declined to be brought. Her excuse was her guest, Miss Fellingham. "Bring her too, by all means if you'll condescend, I am sure," Mrs. Cavely said to Mary.
Cavely, and old Mart, and me as big a fool if I'm not a villain!" Fellingham perceived a more than common effect of Tin man's wine. He touched Van Diemen on the shoulder. "May I beg to hear exactly what has happened?" "Upon my soul, we're all going to live comfortably in Old England, and no more quarreling and decamping," was the stupid rejoinder.
He did not call at the house on the beach, he did not invite Martin to dinner, he was rarely seen, and when he appeared at the Town Council he once or twice violently opposed his friend Martin, who came home ruffled, deeply offended in his interests and his dignity. "Have you noticed any difference in Annette's treatment of you, dear?" Mrs. Cavely inquired. "No," said Tinman; "none.
"A happy resolution," said Fellingham; "and a saving one." He heard further that Mr. Smith would take possession of the Crouch next month, and that Mrs. Cavely hung over Miss Smith like a kite. "And that old Tinman, old enough to be her father!" said Mrs. Crickledon. She dealt in the flashes which connect ideas.
It concerned the ungrateful conduct of their little housemaid Jane, who, as Mrs. Cavely said, "egged on by that woman Crickledon," had been hinting at an advance of wages. "She didn't dare speak, but I saw what was in her when she broke a plate, and wouldn't say she was sorry. I know she goes to Crickledon and talks us over. She's a willing worker, but she has no heart."
Tinman continued muttering angrily over the Australian wines, with a word of irritation at Gippsland, while promising to be watchful of his temper. "What good is Australia to us," he asked, "if it does n't bring us money?" "It's going to, my dear," said Mrs. Cavely. "Think of that when he begins boasting his Australia. And though it's convict's money, as he confesses " "With his convict's money!"
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