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Updated: May 18, 2025
'DEAR MR. DARTON, We have been so alarmed these last few days by the report that you were ruined by the stoppage of 's Bank, that, now it is contradicted I hasten, by my mother's wish, to say how truly glad we are to find there is no foundation for the report. After your kindness to my poor brother's children, I can do no less than write at such a moment.
This was agreed on after some discussion. Edward, however, to provide against all contingencies, begged Sampson not to wait for him should Alfred reach the church by some other road: "I'm only groomsman, you know," said he. He ran off at a racing pace. The bride was then summoned, admired, and handed into one carriage with her two bridesmaids, Miss Bosanquet and Miss Darton. Sampson and Mrs.
It is rather serviceable than showy suitable for the winter weather. 'Good, said Johns. 'Serviceable is a wise word in a bridegroom. I commend ye, Charles. 'For, said Darton, 'why should a woman dress up like a rope-dancer because she's going to do the most solemn deed of her life except dying? 'Faith, why? But she will, because she will, I suppose, said Dairyman Johns. 'H'm, said Darton.
Darton held his breath till he said with treacherous solicitude, 'Try again 'tis coyness. 'O no, said Johns decisively. 'There's been none of that. We talked it over dozens of times in the most fair and square way. She tells me plainly, I don't suit her. 'Twould be simply annoying her to ask her again. Ah, Charles, you threw a prize away when you let her slip five years ago.
'I did I did, said Darton. He returned from that auction with a new set of feelings in play. He had certainly made a surprising mistake in thinking Johns his successful rival. It really seemed as if he might hope for Sally after all.
'I have faced tantalization these twenty years with a temper as mild as milk! said Japheth; 'but such things as this don't come short of devilry! And flinging the match away, he slipped down to the ground. 'What's the matter? asked Darton. 'Not a letter, sacred or heathen not so much as would tell us the way to the great fireplace ever I should sin to say it!
Darton, Sally's intended husband, was coming there that night with the groomsman, Mr. Johns, and other details. 'We thought it must be their step when we heard you, said Mrs. Hall. The needy wanderer looked again on the floor. 'I see I see, he murmured. 'Why, indeed, should I have come to-night? Such folk as I are not wanted here at these times, naturally.
Darton paused to shape his sentence, and asked, 'I I suppose there's nobody else more favoured? 'I can't say that there is, or that there isn't, answered Mrs. Hall. 'She's private in some things. I'm on your side, however, Mr. Darton, and I'll talk to her. 'Thank 'ee, thank 'ee! said the farmer in a gayer accent; and with this assurance the not very satisfactory visit came to an end.
The spell that bound her was broken by her perceiving the two little children seated on a heap of hay. She suddenly went forward, spoke to them, and took one on her arm and the other in her hand. 'And two children? said Mr. Darton, showing thus that he had not been there long enough as yet to understand the situation. 'My grandchildren, said Mrs. Hall, with as much affected ease as before.
With good wishes as in former times, I am, your faithful friend, Darton dropped the letter hopelessly. Beyond the negative, there was just a possibility of sarcasm in it 'nice long speeches on mangold-wurzel' had a suspicious sound. However, sarcasm or none, there was the answer, and he had to be content.
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