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Meanwhile, it was so easy to dissuade Frank from even giving a hint to the folks at home. "For," said the wily and able traitor, "though we may be sure of Mrs. Hazeldean's consent, and her power over your father, when the step is once taken, yet we cannot count for certain on the squire, he is so choleric and hasty.
The morning after this visit of Frank Hazeldean's to Rood Hall, the Right Honourable Audley Egerton, member of parliament, privy councillor, and minister of a high department in the State, just below the rank of the cabinet, was seated in his library, awaiting the delivery of the post, before he walked down to his office.
Meanwhile, it was so easy to dissuade Frank from even giving a hint to the folks at home. "For," said the wily and able traitor, "though we may be sure of Mrs. Hazeldean's consent, and her power over your father, when the step is once taken, yet we cannot count for certain on the squire, he is so choleric and hasty.
Riccabocca could not pursue the subject of life insurances further. But the idea which had never occurred to the foreigner before, though so familiar with us English people when only possessed of a life income pleased him greatly. I will do him the justice to say that he preferred it to the thought of actually appropriating to himself and to his child a portion of Miss Hazeldean's dower.
It pays well." RANDAL. "Would the money have paid as well sunk on my father's land?" FARMER BRUCE. "Perhaps it might, in the long run. But then, sir, we wanted new premises, barns and cattlesheds, and a deal more, which the landlord should do; but it is not every landlord as can afford that. Squire Hazeldean's a rich man." RANDAL. "Ay!"
There, just read this letter from my mother. It came to me this morning. I could hang myself if I were a dog; but I'm a man, and so I must bear it." Randal took Mrs. Hazeldean's letter from Frank's trembling hand.
Hazeldean's bluff negotiation; and convincing himself that one of his vistas towards Fortune was becoming more clear and clear, he turned, with the restless activity of some founder of destined cities in a new settlement, to lop the boughs that cumbered and obscured the others.
Here Frank stopped in his soliloquy, and did make his first desperate effort to think! Now, O dear reader, I assume, of course, that thou art one of the class to which thought is familiar; and, perhaps, thou hast smiled in disdain or incredulity at that remark on the difficulty of thinking which preceded Frank Hazeldean's discourse to himself.
On entering the drawing-room, Randal found the two ladies seated close together, in a position much more appropriate to the familiarity of their school-days than to the politeness of the friendship now existing between them. Mrs. Hazeldean's hand hung affectionately over Carry's shoulder, and both those fair English faces were bent over the same book.
Upon which occasions Captain Barnabas, with great goodhumour, always echoed both the squire's Ho, ho, ho! and Mrs. Hazeldean's Ha, ha, ha! Not so the parson. He had so keen and sportsmanlike an interest in the game, that even his adversaries' mistakes ruffled him.
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