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After greeting his brother, whom he had not seen for several months, the junior began to explain his system of teaching geography. But Halborough the elder took no interest in the subject. 'How about your own studies? he asked. 'Did you get the books I sent? Cornelius had received them, and he related what he was doing. 'Mind you work in the morning. What time do you get up?
Halborough, faintly flushing, said that he had obtained very fair lodgings in the roomy house of a farmer, whom he named. She feared he would find it very lonely, especially in the evenings, and hoped they would see a good deal of him. When would he dine with them? Could he not come that day it must be so dull for him the first Sunday evening in country lodgings?
'First, who is this? said Joshua Halborough with pale dignity, waving his hand towards the buxom woman with the great earrings. 'Dammy, the mis'ess! Your step-mother! Didn't you know I'd married? She helped me home from market one night, and we came to terms, and struck the bargain. Didn't we, Selinar? 'Oi, by the great Lord an' we did! simpered the lady.
He seemed to think we should poison him! Joshua remarked coldly that it was the principal of his college, guardedly inquiring, 'Did you tell him whom you were come to see? His father did not reply. He and his strapping gipsy wife if she were his wife stayed no longer, and disappeared in the direction of the High Street. Joshua Halborough went back to the library.
Joshua Halborough got through the service in some way, and rejoined his brother Cornelius at his house. Neither accepted an invitation to lunch at their sister's; they wished to discuss parish matters together. In the afternoon she came down, though they had already called on her, and had not expected to see her again.
Halborough replied that it would give him much pleasure, but that he feared he must decline. 'I am not altogether alone, he said. 'My sister, who has just returned from Brussels, and who felt, as you do, that I should be rather dismal by myself, has accompanied me hither to stay a few days till she has put my rooms in order and set me going.
The shouts of the village-boys came in at the window, accompanied by broken laughter from loungers at the inn-door; but the brothers Halborough worked on. They were sitting in a bedroom of the master-millwright's house, engaged in the untutored reading of Greek and Latin.
'What's in it? said Joshua. 'A drop of weak gin-and-water. It won't hurt ye. Drin' from the bottle. Joshua did so, and his father pushed up the bottom of the vessel so as to make him swallow a good deal in spite of himself. It went down into his stomach like molten lead. 'Ha, ha, that's right! said old Halborough. 'But 'twas raw spirit ha, ha!
The cause of all this gloom, the millwright Halborough, now snoring in the shed, had been a thriving master-machinist, notwithstanding his free and careless disposition, till a taste for a more than adequate quantity of strong liquor took hold of him; since when his habits had interfered with his business sadly.
My daughter is going to be married to the squire here. I've heard the news I saw it in a paper! 'It is premature 'I know it is true; and I'm her father, and I shall give her away, or there'll be a hell of a row, I can assure ye! Is that where the gennleman lives? Joshua Halborough writhed in impotent despair.
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