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"And who was it?" "Our friend Medlicot's prime favorite and new factotum, Mr. William Nokes. Mr. William Stokes is the gentleman who intends to burn us all out of house and home, and Mr. Medlicot is the gentleman whose pleasure it is to keep Mr. Nokes in the neighborhood." The two women stood awe-struck for a moment, but a sense of justice prevailed upon the wife to speak.
It must be explained as we go on that Heathcote felt that he had received a great and peculiar grievance from the hands of one Medlicot, a stranger who had lately settled near him, and that this last remark referred to a somewhat favorable opinion which had been expressed about this stranger by the two ladies.
Medlicot, you must not do that; you will hurt yourself if you move in that way." And so she escaped, and left the room, and did not see him again till the doctor had gone from Gangoil. The bone had been broken simply as other bones are broken; it was now set, and the sufferer was, of course, told that he must rest.
"Stay a moment with me," he said. "Where are they all?" "Mary and your mother are inside. Harry and Mr. Bates have gone across to look at the horses." "I almost feel as though I could walk, too." "You must not think of it yet, Mr. Medlicot. It seems almost a wonder that you shouldn't have to be in bed, and you with your collar-bone broken only last night!
Medlicot, is it?" "Is that Mr. Heathcote? Good-night, Mr. Heathcote. You are going about at a late hour of the night." "I have to go about early and late; but I ain't later than you." "I'm close at home," said Medlicot. "I am, at any rate, on my own run," said Harry. "You mean to say that I am trespassing?" said the other; "because I can very soon jump back over the fence."
The reader may remember Kate, at any rate, remembered well that, just as the doctor had arrived to set his broken bone, Mr. Medlicot, disabled as he was, had attempted to take her by the arm.
"Yes, you went away and left us in the Botanical Gardens. I remember. But, you see, there are no Botanical Gardens here; and the poor man couldn't walk about if there were." "I wonder what Harry would say if it were to be so." "Of course he'd be glad for your sake." "But he does so despise free-selectors! And then he used to think that Mr. Medlicot was quite as bad as the Brownbies.
As they started, the three men went first, and the ladies followed them; but Bates soon dropped behind. It was his rest day, and he had already moved quite as much as was usual with him on a Sunday. "I think I was a little hard with you the other day," said Medlicot, when they were alone together. "I suppose we hardly understand each other's ideas," said Harry.
"Did you ever see impudence like that?" said Harry. "He's probably the very man who set the match, and yet he comes and brazens it out with me." "I don't think he's the man who set the match," said Medlicot, quietly; "at any rate there was another." "Who was it?" "My man, Nokes. I saw him with the torch in his hand." "Heaven and earth!" "Yes, Mr. Heathcote. I saw him put it down.
He was used to such troubles, and could always tell himself that his back was broad enough to bear them; but his desolation among enemies oppressed him. Medlicot, however, was no longer an enemy. Then there came across his mind for the first time an idea that Medlicot might marry his sister-in-law, and become his fast friend.
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