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Crayston is to be made an example of, they say. As if my father had not half the sin on his own head! As if he had rightly discharged his duties as a rich man! Money was as dross to him; but he ought to have remembered how it might be as life itself to many, and be craved after, and coveted, till the black longing got the better of principle, as it has done with this poor Crayston.
"Don't make any ado about it, please. I shall like to see you off; and I may be of some use to you, and Erminia begged it of me; and, besides, it will keep me out of Mr. Henry's way for a little time, and I'm afraid he will find it all out, and think me very weak; but you see he made me too hard upon Crayston, so I may take it out in a little soft-heartedness toward the son of an old friend."
A month ago, my father would have listened to him, I think; but now, he is stung by Mr. Henry's sayings, and gave way to a furious passion. It has been a most distressing morning. The worst side of everybody seems to have come out. Even Crayston, with all his penitence and appearance of candor, had to be questioned closely by Mr. Henry before he would tell the whole truth.
Crayston only ploughed up the turf, and did not pay rent, and sold the timber, thinking I should never miss it. But your brother has gone and forged my name He had received all the purchase-money, while he only gave me half, and said the rest was to come afterward. And the ungrateful scoundrel has gone and given a forged receipt! You might have knocked me down with a straw when Mr.
My father has been too careless, and has placed his dependents in great temptation; and Crayston he is an old man, with a large extravagant family has yielded. He has been served with notice of my father's intention to prosecute him; and came over to confess all, and ask for forgiveness, and time to pay back what he could.
I can't imagine how he had so much free-will left as to come with his proposal to Maggie; unless, indeed, Henry knows of it or, what is most likely of all, has put him up to it. Between them they have given that poor fool Crayston a pretty dose of it; and I should have come yet worse off if it had not been for Maggie.
That scoundrel of a brother of yours!" She knew too well. But Mr. Buxton was too full of his own thoughts and feelings to notice her much. "Do you know he has been like the rest? Do you know he has been cheating me forging my name? I don't know what besides. Henry is going to transport him. It's worse than Crayston.
Not a man shall escape. I'll make them pay back every farthing, I will. And damages, too. Crayston, did you say, sir? Was that one of the names? Why, that is the very Crayston who was bailiff under my father for years. The scoundrel! And I set him up in my best farm when he married. And he's been swindling me, has he?" Mr. Henry ran over the items of the account "421l, 13s. 4-3/4d.
Resigned after acrimonious correspondence same year. Winner of Crayston Medal for Zoological Research. Foreign Member of' well, quite a lot of things, about two inches of small type 'Societe Belge, American Academy of Sciences, La Plata, etc., etc. Ex-President Palaeontological Society. Section H, British Association' so on, so on!
Why this Crayston was the first man that set me on a horse and to think of his cheating me!" A few days after this conversation, Frank came on his usual visit to Maggie. "Can you come up to the thorn-tree, dearest?" said he. "It is a lovely day, and I want the solace of a quiet hour's talk with you."
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