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"My word! yes; enemies, rather!" said Jacko, who was riding close behind, and who had no idea of being kept out of the conversation merely because he was a servant. Medlicot, turning round, looked at the lad, and asked who were the enemies. "Free-selectors," said Jacko. "I'm a free-selector," said Medlicot. "Did not jist mean you," said Jacko. "Jacko, you'd better hold your tongue," said Mrs.
Let Medlicot in regard to character be what he might, he was a free-selector, and a squatter's enemy, and had clinched his hostility by employing a servant dismissed from the very run out of which he had bought his land. "It is hard to say," he replied at length, "who have grudges, as against whom, or why.
"I think he has got his arm broken fighting for Harry, and that we are bound to do the best we can for him." "Oh yes; that's of course. I'm sure Harry will feel that. He used, you know, to to that is, not just to like him, because he is a free-selector." "They'll drop all that now. Of course they could not be expected to know each other at the first starting.
There was something in Medlicot's voice and manner which made it impossible to attribute such motives to him. Nevertheless the man was a free-selector, and had taken a bit of the Gangoil run after a fashion which to Heathcote was objectionable politically, morally, and socially.
She was quite satisfied with her own lot in that respect, but she was anxious enough on behalf of Kate. And when a young man did come, who might make matters so pleasant for them, Harry quarreled with him because he was a free-selector. "A free fiddle-stick!" she had once said to Kate not, however, communicating to her innocent sister the ambition which was already filling her own bosom.
To him, in his way of thinking, a man who would take advantage of the law to buy a bit of another man's land or become a free-selector, as the term goes was a public enemy, and might be presumed capable of any iniquity. It was all very well for the girls meaning his wife and sister-in-law to tell him that Medlicot had the manners of a gentleman and had come of decent people.
Growler," said the master, "excuse me for saying that you jump to conclusions." "My jumping is pretty well-nigh done," said the old woman. "By no means. I find that old people can jump quite as briskly as young. You have rebuked me under the impression that I was grudging something to the poor. Let me explain to you that a free-selector may be, and very often is, a rich man.
We could only bear it in the veranda by keeping the blinds always wet. I don't wonder that you were troubled." "That comes from heaven or Providence, or from something that one knows to be unassailable, and therefore one can put up with it. Even if one gets a sun-stroke one does not complain. The sun has a right to be there, and is no interloper, like a free-selector.
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