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I have been ranger since I was twenty-two, and I don't yet know whether that means cutting down." "Not only cutting down, but rooting up," said Mr. Fothergill. "It's a murderous shame," said Frank Gresham; "and I will say one thing, I don't think any but a Whig government would do it." "Ha, ha, ha!" laughed his grace.
He walked into the room with a short, quick step; there was no smile on his face as he shook hands with his old friend; he brought with him a box laden with papers and parchments, and he had not been a minute in the room before he was seated in one of the old dingy chairs. "How long have you been in town, Fothergill?" said Sowerby, still standing with his back against the chimney.
For thus argued Raymond Fothergill, with a vanity which was so calm, so clear, so certain that it sounded like reason itself it was not possible that Sissy Langton preferred Carroll to himself. Even had it been Latimer or Hardwicke! But Carroll no! Therefore she used the one cousin merely to avoid the other. But why did she wish to avoid him?
But he finds Boxall Hill more centrical than Greshamsbury. The dogs and horses have to go shorter distances." "Boxall Hill is very centrical." "Oh, exactly!" "And your young gorse coverts are doing well?" "Pretty well gorse won't thrive everywhere, I find. I wish it would." "That's just what I say to Fothergill; and then where there's much woodland you can't get the vermin to leave it."
Fothergill did not think that he would now submit himself to any such operation. I never heard in what manner and at what rate Mr. Fothergill received remuneration for the various services performed by him with reference to the duke's property in Barsetshire; but I am very sure that, whatever might be the amount, he earned it thoroughly.
The party started for Ashendale, some riding, some driving, waking the quiet green lanes with a happy tumult of wheels and horse-hoofs and laughing voices. Captain Fothergill contrived to be near Miss Langton, and to talk in a fashion which made her look down once or twice when she had encountered the eagerness of his dark eyes. The words he said might have been published by the town-crier.
Across the outside was written in bold handwriting: "J. Fothergill West, Esq.," and underneath: "To be handed to that gentleman in the event of the disappearance or decease of Major-General J. B. Heatherstone, V.C., C.B., late of the Indian Army." So at last I was to know the dark secret which had cast a shadow over our lives. Here in my hands I held the solution of it.
"I don't know when he has done such a thing before," said Sowerby; "and you may be quite sure of this, he would not have done it now, had you not gone to Gatherum Castle when he asked you: indeed, Fothergill would have known that it was vain to attempt it.
I consider that up to the present our friends on the other side of the Channel have displayed commendable moderation in a time of great excitement, and I am happy to say that I have the authority of Lord Fothergill himself for saying that they will consent to submitting the affair to a commission of arbitration." The President's words were received with chilling silence.
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