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"That's how 'tis; and, as if all this misfortune wasn't enough I've just heard of the death of my only brother, Nathan Coaker, in Ireland." "That terrible handsome man, as had all the girls by the ears in Postbridge afore he went off?" "Yes only thirty-five killed steeple-chasing. He was a huntsman, you know, and a great breaker of hosses. And now one's broke him.
She told him that her old sweetheart, Nathan Coaker, was coming back, and that blood would be spilled, and that the wise woman didn't know for certain whether 'twas his blood or Nathan's. She wept a lot, and told him about Coaker, and what a strong, hard chap he was, and how he had the trick to ride over a woman's heart and win 'em even against their wills.
Poor Mary went off expecting to meet Nathan Coaker at every step o' the road, and little knowing that the poor blid was sleeping his last sleep in a grave in foreign parts to Ireland.
"'Tis like this," he went on. "It do look as if that man, Nathan Coaker, was coming back." "That's so. I never seed the fellow myself, but his name certainly was Nathan Coaker, and Mary called him home in a minute from my picture in the crystal.
Coaker he said: "Your bill goes through all right, the Premier has his orders." Some provisions had been attached to the bill non-eligibility to office, no voting power until the next general election and an age limit of 30 years. The Premier promised to have the Government reduce this to 25 and they were compelled to agree.
From the first the Premier, Sir Richard Anderson Squires, was hostile and this was the case with most of the Cabinet, but Minister of Marine Coaker showed a friendly spirit; Minister of Justice Warren introduced the bill and Mr. Jennings, chairman of the Board of Public Works, agreed to bring it up for action.
My Mary was tokened in a sort of childish way to a man called Nathan Coaker a horse-stealer or little better, and a devil of a rogue, anyway. But it seems you looked in your bit of glass and pretended to see " "Stop!" cried Charity, putting on her grand manner and making her eyes flash like forked lightning at the man. "How do you dare to talk about 'pretending' to me?
"What a fool you are! Why, for two reasons I should think. Firstly, because your father promised her husband; secondly, because 'tis half the way to keeping Nathan Coaker in Ireland. If she lets him know as you be going to do the rightful thing, he'll have no more quarrel with you, since he don't know about you and Mary.
He tried to haggle, but she'd none of that wouldn't bate her offer by a shilling. So he came to it. "Thirty pound I must have the day you marry Mary," she said. "And now tell me all you know about this rash, savage man, Nathan Coaker. The more I understand the better chance shall I have of keeping him off your throat." With that Peter explained how t'other fellow was the young brother of Mrs.
"'Tis Nathan Coaker as you be seeing! I thought he'd forgot me a year agone!" "Hush! Don't be talking. No, he ain't forgot you by the looks of it. Quite the contrary." Mary went white as curds, and sat with her hands forced over her heart to hear what the wise woman would see next. "Them men will meet!" she said, presently. "There! They crash together and fight like dragons!
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