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Updated: June 4, 2025
'And how has he done so? I asked. 'Why, between friends, quoth the Mayor, 'it was but last Lady-day that he asked the hand of my granddaughter Ruth in marriage. His time is nearly served, and his father, Sam Derrick, is an honourable craftsman, so that the match would have been no unfitting one.
Stay, if you plase, Mister Mordicai, till Lady-day, when it becomes due; in the meantime, I have a handful, or rather an armful, of bank-notes for you, from my Lord Colambre. 'Humph! said Mordicai; 'how's that? he'll not be of age these three days. 'Don't matter for that; he has sent me to look over your account, and to hope that you will make some small ABATEMENT in the total.
'I think I must ask Hackit to lend me twenty pounds, for it is nearly two months till Lady-day, and we can't give Woods our last shilling. 'I hardly like you to ask Mr. Hackit, dear he and Mrs. Hackit have been so very kind to us; they have sent us so many things lately. 'Then I must ask Oldinport.
I cannot get out as I used to do, and do not care to meet people about business." "I never knew you more clear-headed in my life, sir." "Well, perhaps not. We'll say nothing about that. What I intend to do is this; to give up the property into your hands at Lady-day. You shall be master of The Cleeve from that time forth." "Sir?" "The truth is, you desire employment, and I don't.
Stay, if you plase, Mister Mordicai, till Lady-day, when it becomes due: in the mean time, I have a handful, or rather an armful, of bank-notes for you, from my Lord Colambre." "Humph." said Mordicai: "how's that? he'll not be of age these three days." "Don't matter for that: he has sent me to look over your accounts, and to hope that you will make some small ABATEMENT in the total."
The farmer himself, it appeared, was not at home, but his wife, who represented him this evening, made no objection to hiring Tess, on her agreeing to remain till Old Lady-Day. Female field-labour was seldom offered now, and its cheapness made it profitable for tasks which women could perform as readily as men.
It was not until the last years of the merry monarch's reign that there was introduced "an ingenious and useful invention for the good of this great city, calculated to secure one's goods, estates, and person; to prevent fires, robberies and housebreakings, and several accidents and casualties by falls to which man is liable by walking in the dark" This was a scheme for lighting the streets, by placing an oil-lamp in front of every tenth house on each side of the way, from Michaelmas to Lady-day, every night from six of the clock till twelve, beginning the third night after every full moon, and ending on the sixth night after every new moon; one hundred and twenty nights in all.
"I am not going to emigrate, you know; I wasn't aware that you would wish me not to when I told 'ee or I shouldn't ha' thought of doing it." he said, simply. "I have arranged for Little Weatherbury Farm and shall have it in my own hands at Lady-day. You know I've had a share in it for some time.
He turned to Meadows, "When I wander forth at Lady-day she shall still be watched over though I be far away. My eye shall be here, and my hand shall still be so over you all," and raising his thin hand, he held it high up, the nails pointing downward. It looked just like a hawk hovering over its prey.
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