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Updated: June 28, 2025
"We must not keep the Baron waiting," said Mark, as they were preparing to start for Barchester. "I don't know what you mean by the Baron, sir," said Harold Smith. "But perhaps the joke will be against you, when you are getting up into your pulpit to-morrow, and sending the hat round among the clod-hoppers of Chaldicotes."
"When clod-hoppers and such scum mingle with their betters," he bawled out, "one of us must retire from the foul contamination. But this I tell you, the first of you that budges, or even growls, I'll break every bone in his skin." The peasants, whether alarmed by his drunken fury, or perhaps only unwilling to incense him still more, drew back to their table.
He is sick of feeding cows and horses; he imagines that, on the pavement of London, he would walk with a manlier tread. There is no help in visions of Arcadia; yet it is plain fact that in days gone by the peasantry found life more than endurable, and yet were more intelligent than our clod-hoppers who still hold by the plough. They had their folk-songs, now utterly forgotten.
Fifteen years at the French Court have made me in heart and mind almost a Frenchwoman; nor can I fail to be influenced by my maternal ancestry. I find it difficult sometimes to remember my English, when conversing with the clod-hoppers of Oxfordshire, who have no French, yet insist, for finery's sake, upon larding their rustic English with French words.
These men will not have it. There will be trouble come of Betty's coquettishness." "Why, Bessie, she is only a child. What would you have her do? Marry the first man who asked her?" "The clod-hoppers are coming," said Mrs. Zane as the jingling of sleigh bells broke the stillness. Col. Zane sprang up and opened the door. A broad stream of light flashed from the room and lighted up the road.
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