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Mr Cheesacre's boat reached the pier at Yarmouth first, and gave up its load without accident. Very shortly afterwards Captain Bellfield's crew reached the same place in the same state of preservation. "There," said he, as he handed out Mrs Greenow. "I have brought you to no harm, at any rate as yet." "And, as I hope, will not do so hereafter." "May the heavens forbid it, Mrs Greenow!
"Oh, Mr Cheesacre," echoed a laughing voice; and poor Cheesacre, looking round, saw that Mrs Greenow, who ought to have been inside the house looking after the boiling water, was moving about for some unknown reason within sight of the spot which he had chosen for his dalliance. "Mr Cheesacre," said Charlie sobbing, "how dare you do that? and where all the world could see you?"
If he can bring love, you can bring money; can't you, ma'am?" "He's nothing to me, girl," repeated Mrs Greenow. "But he will be?" said Jeannette, plainly asking a question. "Well, I'm sure! What's the world come to, I wonder, when you sit yourself down there, and cross-examine your mistress in that way! Get to bed, will you? It's near ten o'clock."
Mr Cheesacre had no wish that Miss Vavasor's name should be brought into play upon the occasion. "Dear Mrs Greenow," said he, "there is no cause for you to be alarmed, I can assure you. Mere trifles; light as air, you know. I don't think anything of such things as these." "But I and Kate think a great deal of them, a very great deal, I can assure you.
But the tailor had not as yet supplied the goods, waiting for more credible evidence of the Captain's good fortune. "We're all grass of the field," said Mrs Greenow, lightly brushing a tear from her eye, "and must be cut down and put into the oven in our turns."
"I did just put my bag, with a change of things, into the gig, which brought me over, not knowing quite where I might go on to." "We won't send you any further to-day, at any rate," said Kate. "Mrs Greenow has been very kind, very kind, indeed. She has asked me to stay till Saturday!" Kate bit her lips in a momentary fit of anger. The house was her house, and not her aunt's.
And then Mrs Greenow opened her mind to Alice about the Captain. "He's as good as gold, my dear; he is, indeed, in his own way. Of course, I know that he has faults, and I should like to know who hasn't. Although poor dear Greenow certainly was more without them than anybody else I ever knew."
Rumours soon made their way to Vavasor Hall, and to Queen Anne Street, that Mrs Greenow was quite a pattern wife, and that Mr Greenow considered himself to be the happiest old man in Lancashire. And now in her prosperity she quite forgave the former slights which had been put upon her by her relatives.
But Mrs Greenow was so good-natured in tendering the services of Jeannette to all the young ladies, and was so willing to share with others those good things of the toilet which her care had provided, that her cap was forgiven her by the most of those present.
"I'm if she hasn't been and set up a carriage!" he said to himself one day, as standing on the pavement of Tombland, in Norwich, he saw Mrs Greenow issue forth from the Close in a private brougham, accompanied by one of the Fairstairs girls. "She's been and set up her carriage as sure as my name's Cheesacre!"
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