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To judge from his manner and hers, the thing was going with rapidity. Well, well, there was nothing for it but to hope for the best. On their way through the hall she stopped him, her hand still in his arm. Aldous was in front, at the door, looking for a light shawl she had brought with her. "I should like to thank you," she said shyly, "about the Hurds. It will be very kind of you and Mr.
The fire played on the thin legs and pinched faces of the children; on the baby's cradle in the further corner; on the mother, red-eyed still, but able to smile and talk again; on the strange Celtic face and matted hair of the dwarf. Family affection and the satisfaction of the simpler physical needs these things make the happiness of the poor. For this hour, to-night, the Hurds were happy.
The village was perfectly aware of the particular friendship shown by Miss Boyce to the Hurds. He was goaded into trying a more stinging topic. Ee said ee 'ad 'is eye on yer ee 'ad warned yer twoice last year " "That's a lie!" said Hurd, removing his pipe an instant and putting it back again. Patton looked more cheerful. "Well, ee spoke cru'l.
"I think I can arrange that you shan't have to, for the Hurds are a notoriously long-lived family." "But what was so terrific about it, Charlie?" inquired the other young lady. "It didn't seem to me to differ much from any other marriage ceremony and you must have heard dozens at one time or another."
"If it is, it is because they are so starved and miserable," said Marcella, trying hard to speak coolly, but excited almost beyond bounds by the conversation and all that it implied. "And the Hurds I don't believe it a bit! But if it were true oh! they have been in such straits they were out of work most of last winter; they are out of work now, No one could grudge them.
"To think o' her bein' in it at this time o' day. You could see Muster Raeburn was a tellin' of her to go 'ome. But she's allus pampered them Hurds." The speaker was Ned Patton, old Patton's son, and Hurd's companion on many a profitable night-walk.
It was shortly after five o'clock when the Hurds' butler opened the front door to admit a company of four. These intruders, waiting no bidding and ignoring altogether the fact that one of their number had been forbidden the house, made their cheerful way, headed by Mrs.
Hurd has thus far given an excellent imitation of a very fair grade of adamant, as Charlie puts it. He concedes nothing that he doesn't have to. He says Isabel is of age and can legally marry whom she pleases, but if she pleases to marry Charles Wilkinson, the Hurds' roof shall not be the scene of the function.
But he says he thinks he will soon have his hand on the local accomplice a Mellor man a man named Hurd: not one of our labourers, I think." "Hurd!" cried Marcella, in dismay. "Oh no, it can't be impossible!" Lord Maxwell looked at her in astonishment. "Do you know any Hurds? I am afraid your father will find that Mellor is a bad place for poaching."
Miss Raeburn turned her buttonhole in fine style, and at lightning speed, to show the coolness of her mind, then with a rattling of all her lockets, looked up and waited for Lady Winterbourne's reflections. "She has often talked to me of these people the Hurds," said Lady Winterbourne, slowly. "She has always made special friends with them.
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