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I'll swing the mallet and get her answer this very night as I planned. A few more remarks, and Darton, wishing his friend joy of Sally in a slightly hollow tone of jocularity, bade him good-bye. Johns promised to write particulars, and ascended, and was lost in the shade of the house and tree. A rectangle of light appeared when Johns was admitted, and all was dark again.
"Unless it be, perhaps, that of a father towards a child." His sadness seemed to weigh him against the desk. I relented. "To go against one's own against one's own," he repeated, "and Con so sick now " "You must forgive me, Mr. Darton, for my views," I said more gently, "and tell me what I can do." He pulled himself together at that.
It's all over. Mrs. Carn's been here all morning and " It was at this moment that Mrs. Carn, her eyelids red from weeping, an old bumpy, red worsted shawl over her head, came nervously into the room; and, without so much as even a nod to any of us, edged quicky out of the front door. "Well " began my father, his clear, scrutinizing eyes fixed on Darton. "A-nother sign," expostulated Mr.
The journey was, for some reason or other, performed in two stages, as at his coming, except that Darton in person took the place of the bailiff, and that the boy and himself rode on horseback. Reaching the renowned 'White Horse, Darton inquired if Miss and young Mrs. He was answered by the appearance of Helena alone at the door. 'At the last moment Sally would not come, she faltered.
By all means put it on here as you intended, said Darton. 'Allow me to help you. He went forward to take the kettle from her hand, but she did not allow him, and placed it on the fire herself. They stood some way apart, one on each side of the fireplace, waiting till the water should boil, the candle on the mantel between them, and Helena with her eyes on the kettle.
Darton said he was glad of this opportunity, bad as it was, of putting an end to the silence of years, and asked the dairyman what he was travelling that way for. Japheth showed the old jovial confidence in a moment. 'I'm going to see your relations as they always seem to me, he said 'Mrs. Hall and Sally.
Darton went off sorry, and even unhappy, particularly as Japheth was about to leave that side of the county, so that the words which had divided them were not likely to be explained away or softened down.
Farmer Darton responded in such sharp terms to this laconic opinion that the two friends finally parted in a way they had never parted before. Johns was to be no groomsman to Darton after all. He had flatly declined.
This led to occasional unpleasantness, until Darton sometimes declared to himself that such endeavours as his to rectify early deviations of the heart by harking back to the old point mostly failed of success. 'Perhaps Johns was right, he would say. 'I should have gone on with Sally.
We had a letter from each of them a few days ago. Your faithful friend, 'Mercenary little woman! said Darton to himself with a smile. 'Then that was the secret of her refusal this time she thought I was ruined. Now, such was Darton, that as hours went on he could not help feeling too generously towards Sally to condemn her in this. What did he want in a wife? he asked himself.
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