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Updated: June 29, 2025
Had she wanted to get away her tone and manner would have been very different. "I wonder whether you feel yourself to be the same sort of person here that you are at Humblethwaite," he said. "Exactly the same." "To me you seem to be so different." "In what way?" "I don't think you are half so nice." "How very unkind!" Of course she was flattered.
It was known that Humblethwaite and the surrounding manors had been given to, or in some fashion purchased by, a certain Harry Hotspur, who also in his day had been a knight, when Church lands were changing hands under Henry VIII. And there was authority to prove that that Sir Harry had done something towards making a home for himself on the spot; but whether those very gables were a portion of the building which the monks of St.
She had been told from the first that her engagement with her cousin would not receive her father's sanction; and for some days after that there had been silence on the subject at Humblethwaite, while the correspondence with Mr. Boltby was being continued.
For he understood that the success of his views at Humblethwaite must postpone the payment by Sir Harry of those moneys for which Mr. Hart and Captain Stubber were so unreasonably greedy. He would have dared to defy the greed, but for the Walker and Bullbean portion of the affair. Sir Harry already knew that he was in debt to these men; already knew with fair accuracy the amount of those debts.
Eldest sons there might be in plenty ready to take such a bride; and were some eldest son to come to him and ask for his daughter's hand, some eldest son who would do so almost with a right to claim it if the girl's consent were gained, how could he refuse? And yet to leave a Hotspur behind him living at Humblethwaite, and Hotspurs who should follow that Hotspur, was all in all to him.
But Sir Harry in this interview had been so very ungracious, and as George knew very well, because of the scene in the corner, that there might be a doubt whether he would ever get to Humblethwaite at all. If he failed, however, it should not be for the want of audacity on his own part. But, in truth, Sir Harry's blackness was still the result of vacillation.
And then the hold of a child upon the father is so much stronger than that of the father on the child! Our eyes are set in our face, and are always turned forward. The glances that we cast back are but occasional. And so the sunshine was banished from the house of Humblethwaite, and the days were as black as the night.
There is no matter of doubt at all but that on all such subjects an average woman can write a better letter than an average man; and Cousin George was therefore right to obtain assistance from his female friends. He slept at Penrith till nearly noon, then breakfasted and started with post-horses for Humblethwaite. He felt that everybody knew what he was about, and was almost ashamed of being seen.
While Cousin George was packing his things, Sir Harry called for the bill and paid it, without looking at it, because he would not examine how the blackamoor had lived while he was still a blackamoor. "I wonder whether he observed the brandy," thought Cousin George to himself. The greater portion of the journey back to Humblethwaite was passed in silence.
And yet she was not sure but that upon the whole he would be pleased after a while. Humblethwaite and the family honours would still go together, if he would sanction this marriage; and she knew how he longed in his heart that it might be so. For a time probably he might be averse to her prayers.
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