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Updated: May 13, 2025
Their property all in beautiful order marched with ours, and Chapman was very particular about the boundaries. 'Old master he wouldn't have a bird picked up if it fell over on they Fordys' ground not he! He couldn't abide passons, couldn't the old Squire not Miss Hannah More, and all they Cheddar lot, and they Fordys least of all.
I asked why Amos Bell's home had been neglected, and was answered with some annoyance, as I pointed down the lane, that it was on our land, though in Hillside parish. 'I am glad to have such neighbours! observed my mother, and I kept to myself the remarks I had heard, though I was still tingling with the sting of them. We heard no more of 'they Fordys' for some time.
He was mourned alike by rich and poor, 'He WAS a gentleman, said even Chapman, 'always the same to rich or poor, though he was one of they Fordys. My father wrote to summon both his elder sons to the funeral at Hillside, and in due time Clarence appeared by the coach, but alone.
'What? she cried indignantly; 'do you think I could hear of such a thing without trying to stop it? 'Us says, he blurted out, 'as how Winslows be always fain of ought as happens to the Fordys
Mears' unpunctualities, specially as regarded weddings and funerals; one 'corp' having been kept waiting till a messenger had been sent to Wattlesea, who finding both clergy out for the day, had had to go to Hillside, 'where they was always ready, though the old Squire would have been mad with him if he'd a-guessed one of they Fordys had ever set foot in the parish.
My son's wife, she was for sending her little maid to Hillside to Madam Fordys' school, but, bless your heart, 'twould have been as much as my place was worth if master had known it. The visit was not returned till after Clarence had gone back to his London work.
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