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But she shook the thought off at last, saying to herself, "Well, well, I don't suppose the farm'll go begging. There are plenty of people that would be glad enough to have me give it to them. I expect it will have to go to Cousin Josiah after all; but father couldn't abide him. It's a great pity I wasn't a boy, then I could have married and had children to take it."
Why should you work for nothing here and get no thanks? You're worth your wages, and there you'll get 'em. There's justice in that. Only the farm'll be different." "There's only the dairy," said Lilac. "Someone else'll have to do that if I go. And I should miss the beasts too." She put her hand on Sober's rough head as he sat by her.
"Ham's farm'll look like ours, one of these days, at this rate," he said to his mother. "I mean it shall," she replied, somewhat sharply. "Now go and get out the ponies, and we'll do the rest of our errands."
But she shook the thought off at last, saying to herself, "Well, well, I don't suppose the farm'll go begging. There are plenty of people that would be glad enough to have me give it to them. I expect it will have to go to Cousin Josiah after all; but father couldn't abide him. It's a great pity I wasn't a boy, then I could have married and had children to take it."
"That's your style o' thinkin', is it?" put in another man standing by, with a round straw hat set back upon his head in a, fashion which gave him the appearance of a village idiot "Well, it's not mine! No, by no means! There'll be a Will, an' Mister Robin he'll find a Way! Briar Farm'll allus be Briar Farm accordin' to MY mind!"
On the contrary, under the influence of the rum she became weakly jovial and a trifle garrulous confiding to 'Lizabeth that, though married to William for four years, she had hitherto been blessed with no children; that they lived in barracks, which she disliked, but put up with because she doted on a red coat; that William had always been meaning to tell his father, but feared to anger him, "because, my dear," she frankly explained, "I was once connected with the stage" a form of speech behind which 'Lizabeth did not pry; that, a fortnight before Christmas, William had made up his mind at last, "'for, as he said to me, 'the old man must be nearin' his end, and then the farm'll be mine by rights;" that he had obtained his furlough two days back, and come by coach all the way to this doleful spot for doleful she must call it, though she would have to live there some day with no shops nor theayters, of which last it appeared Mrs.
He noticed too, before they left the place, that the customary farm-work was going ahead with even more regularity and energy than if the owner himself had been present. "Ham's farm'll look something like ours, one of these days," he said, "if things go on at this rate." "I mean it shall," replied his mother, a little sharply. "Now go and get out the ponies, and we'll do the rest of our errands."
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