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Caldigate had expected from him. He wrote heartrending letters to Folking, in spite of the hard words which had been said to him there. He made a second journey to Cambridge, and endeavoured to frighten Mr. Bolton. Descent of acres from father to son was to him so holy a thing, that he was roused to unexpected energies. He was so far successful that Mr.
As he got near to the place, and passed along the dikes, and looked to the right and left down the droves, and trotted at last over the Folking bridge across the Middle Wash, the country did not seem to him to be so unattractive as of yore; and when he recognised the faces of the neighbours, when one of the tenants spoke to him kindly, and the girls dropped a curtsey as he passed, certain soft regrets began to crop up in his mind.
His conscience, however, pinched him, and before he had even settled the day on which he would start, he wrote to his aunt a long letter in which he told her everything, how he had disposed of his inheritance, how he had become so indebted to Davis as to have to seek a new fortune out of England, how he had bade farewell to Folking for ever, and how impossible it was under all these circumstances that he should aspire to the hand of his cousin Julia.
'It certainly has been all for the best. 'I hope so. But when you talk of his right, I am bound to say that he has none. Folking is now yours, without encumbrance, and you can give it to whom you please. 'It was he who paid off the mortgage. 'You have told me that he sent you part of the money; but that's between you and him.
Could she without sting of conscience have gone off to Folking and ate of her son-in-law's bread and drank of his cup, and sat in his presence, no mother living would have enjoyed more thoroughly the delight of waiting upon and caressing and bending over her child.
At last it was decided that he should take her, reaching the place about the hour of lunch, so that he might again break bread in her father's house, that he should then leave her there, and that at the end of the two days she should return to Folking. On the day named they reached Puritan Grange at the hour fixed.
The truth is, I don't mind telling you, Mrs. Caldigate, I was drinking a good deal just then. His present state of abstinence had of course become known at Folking, not without the expression of much marvel on the part of the old Squire as to the quantity of tea which their visitor was able to swallow.
He had come over on the preceding evening, making on this occasion his first journey to Folking since his wife's sister had died; and the old squire was there in very good humour, though he excused himself from going to the church by explaining that as he had no duty to perform he would only be in the way amongst them all. Daniel and Mrs.
William Bolton wrote both to his father and brother, and Mr. Brown the Under-Secretary sent a private letter to the old squire at Folking, of which further mention shall be made. Before church time on the Sunday morning, the fact that John Caldigate was to be released, or had been released from prison, was known to all Cambridge. Caldigate himself had borne his imprisonment on the whole well.
Then he was reminded that he was his father's heir, and that his father's house was sadly in want of a mistress. They could live at Babington till Folking should be ready. The prospect was awful! What is a young man to say in such a position? 'I do not love the young lady after that fashion, and therefore I must decline. It requires a hero, and a cold-blooded hero, to do that.
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