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Did I not see active service at Essiquebo, on the burning coast of Guiana, when all the wild Africans from the woods rose up to destroy the colony; or again at the mouth of the Kitchyhomy River, when I made good the capture of a slaver by my own hand and my own sword!" "I really hadn't heard," said Mrs Greenow. "Ah, I understand. I know.
"Mrs Greenow, just at present there's only one woman in the world that I can think of." "And that's my niece." "And that's yourself. I'm a broken-hearted man, I am, indeed. I didn't ever think I should feel so much about a thing of the kind I didn't, really. I hardly know what to do with myself; but I suppose I'd better go back to Oileymead."
After dinner they started off for a ramble through the fields, and Mrs Greenow and Mr Cheesacre were together. I think that Charlie Fairstairs did not go with them at all. I think she went into the house and washed her face, and brushed her hair, and settled her muslin. I should not wonder if she took off her frock and ironed it again.
"Give him my kind love," said Mrs Greenow, thereby resenting the impotent interference. "And look here, Captain Bellfield, suppose you both dine with me next Saturday. He always comes in on Saturday, and you might as well come too." Captain Bellfield declared that he would only be too happy.
How are you to settle yourself in life if you don't care for them?" "My dear aunt, I am settled." "Settled!" said Mrs Greenow, astounded, as though there must have been some hidden marriage of which she had not heard. "But that's nonsense. Of course you're not settled; and how are you to be, if I allow you to shut yourself up in such a place as this, just where a girl has a chance?"
Kate had acknowledged to her aunt that her brother had behaved badly, very badly; and the aunt had confessed to the niece that she regarded Captain Bellfield as a fit subject for compassion. "And he was violent to you, and broke your arm? I always knew it was so," Mrs Greenow had said, speaking with reference to her nephew. But this Kate had denied. "No," said she; "that was an accident.
She might send for her uncle John; but if she did so without telling George she would be treating George unfairly; and she knew that it was improbable that her uncle and her brother should act together in anything. Her aunt Greenow, she thought, would come to her, and her presence would not influence the Squire in any way with reference to the property.
"I've seen nobody," said Cheesacre. But at this moment he was compelled to swallow his anger, as Mrs Greenow, accompanied by her lady guest, came into the room. "Whoever would have expected two gentlemen to be so punctual," said she, "especially on market-day!"
There was a great unpacking, during which Captain Bellfield and Mrs Greenow constantly had their heads in the same hamper. I by no means intend to insinuate that there was anything wrong in this. People engaged together in unpacking pies and cold chickens must have their heads in the same hamper.
One husband is enough for any woman, and mine lies buried at Birmingham." "Oh, damn it!" said he, in utter disgust at this further reference to Mr Greenow. The expression, at such a moment, militated against courtesy; but even Mrs Greenow herself felt that the poor man had been subjected to provocation. "Let us part friends," said she, offering him her hand.
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