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Updated: May 11, 2025
At the time that he vanished from Lingborough the gossips of the country side said, This comes of making pets of tramps' brats, when honest folk's sons may toil and moil without notice.
Supper was served at nine, and the parson and the lawyer played whist for love with different partners on different evenings with strict impartiality. Small jealousies are apt to be weak points in small societies, but there was a general acquiescence in the belief that the parson had a friendly preference for the little ladies of Lingborough.
Dunmaw's red silk and rosewood piano than had been shaken out of it during the last thirty years, that the lawyer brought his cup of coffee to Miss Betty's side, and said, suavely, "I here wonderful accounts of Lingborough, dear Miss Betty." "I am thankful to say, sir, that the farm is doing well this year.
And just as the little ladies ran into the garden, and Miss Kitty was saying, "One comfort is, sister Betty, that it's quite safe in the room, till we can think what to do next," he bowed his yellow crest, spread his noble wings, and sailed out into the aether. In ten minutes the whole able-bodied population of the place was in the grounds of Lingborough, including the farm-bailiff.
As to the incomings of Lingborough, "It was nobody's business but their own," as Miss Betty said to the lawyer who was their man of business, and whom they consulted on little matters of rent and repairs at as much length, and with as much formal solemnity, as would have gone elsewhere to the changing hands of half a million of money.
The plain cousin left his money to the little old ladies, and Lingborough continued to flourish. Partly perhaps because of this, it is doubtful if John Broom was ever looked upon by the rustics as quite "like other folk."
Thus it came about that the little ladies' charities were not known even to each other that Miss Betty turned her morning camlet twice instead of once, and Miss Kitty denied herself in sugar, to carry out benevolent little projects which were accomplished in secret, and of which no record appears in the Lingborough Ledger.
The older sister always went through the form of asking the younger to "see if the servant had come," and at this signal the parson always bade the lady of the house good night, and respectfully proffered his services as an escort to Lingborough.
The sight of the cockatoo had brought back the fever of home-sickness in all its fierceness. He couldn't stay out here. He would dare anything, do anything, to see the hills about Lingborough once more before him died; and even if he did not live to see them, he might live to sleep in that part of Davy's Locker which should rock him on the shores of home.
The wheelbarrow was afterwards found in Miss Betty's farmyard, quite empty. But luck had come to Lingborough. There had not been such crops for twice seven years past. The lay-away hens' eggs were brought regularly to the kitchen. The ducklings were not eaten by rats. No fowls were stolen. The tub of pig-meal lasted three times as long as usual.
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