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In front of the house, however, Peter Peebles found a more efficient protector than the worthy Quaker. Our readers may recollect that Fairford had been conducted by Dick Gardener from the house of Fairladies to the inn of old Father Crackenthorp, in order, as he had been informed by the mysterious Father Buonaventure, that he might have the meeting which he desired with Mr.
"Oh, pooh send somebody else," said uncle Kimble, hurrying away with Marner. "You'll let me know if I can be of any use, Kimble," said Mr. Crackenthorp. But the doctor was out of hearing.
He assured his passenger that he would be quite well by and by, when he had been half an hour on terra firma, and that he hoped to drink a can and smoke a pipe with him at Father Crackenthorp's, for all that he felt a little out of the way for riding the wooden horse. 'Who is Father Crackenthorp? said Fairford, though scarcely able to articulate the question.
'Gentlemen! humph! said Crackenthorp 'not a blue-cap among them but halts upon that foot. Then seizing on a dish which still contained a huge cantle of what had been once a princely mutton pasty, he placed it on the table before the stranger, saying, 'There, master gentleman; there is what is worth all the black pies, as you call them, that were ever made of sheep's head.
While he was revolving these things in his mind, and preparing himself for the interview with his uncle which could not but be a stormy one, he saw Hugh Redgauntlet come riding slowly back to meet them without any attendants. Cristal Nixon rode up as he approached, and, as they met, fixed on him a look of inquiry. 'The fool, Crackenthorp, said Redgauntlet, has let strangers into his house.
'How many rogues are the officers? If not more than ten, I will make fight. 'The devil you will! answered Crackenthorp. 'You were better not, for they have the bloody-backed dragoons from Carlisle with them. 'Nay, then, said Nanty, 'we must make sail. Come, Master Fairlord, you must mount and ride. He does not hear me he has fainted, I believe What the devil shall I do?
'Never heard of such a thing, master, said the landlord, and was about to trudge onward; when the guest, detaining him, said, in a strong Scottish tone, 'Ya will maybe have nae whey then, nor buttermilk, nor ye couldna exhibit a souter's clod? 'Can't tell what ye are talking about, master, said Crackenthorp.
'Why, look ye, brother Nixon, said Crackenthorp, turning his quid with great composure, 'the squire is a very worthy gentleman, and I'll never deny it; but I am neither his servant nor his tenant, and so he need send me none of his orders till he hears I have put on his livery.
Crackenthorp; for she was so instinctively neat and adroit in all her actions, and her pretty lips met each other with such quiet firmness, that it would have been difficult for her to appear agitated. It was not the rector's practice to let a charming blush pass without an appropriate compliment.
'But the blind scraping scoundrel yonder, said Nixon, 'how dared you take such a rascal as that across your threshold at such a time as this? If the squire should dream you have a thought of peaching I am only speaking for your good, Father Crackenthorp.
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