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But he would not have it, for no other reason of ill-will or temper, but only because he had ordered his bed at the Moonstock Inn, where his coach and four were resting. "'I expect you to call me in the morning, George, I heard him say, as clear as could be, while his son was helping his coat on. 'I am glad I have seen you. There are worse than you.
And I might have gone on with such weakness longer, if I had not heard that his coach-and-four was ordered for the Moonstock Inn. "That he should dare thus to pollute the spot where he had so forsworn himself! I resolved that there he should pay justice, either with his life or death.
The whole nature of our people, Moonstock or out of it, is never to take victuals by any sort of persuasion. If St. Paul was to come and preach, 'Eat this or that, all I had of it in the shop would go rotten. They hate any meddling with their likings, and they suspect doctor's rubbish in all of it." "I am quite of their opinion," I replied; "and I am glad to hear of their independence.
My father would have been the man for your sad affair, miss, if the police had only been invented in his time. Ah, yes, he was sharp! Not a Moonstock man you may take your oath of that, miss but a good honest native from Essex. But he married my mother, a Moonstock woman; or they would not put up with me here at all.
And from that stile a foot-path led down a slope of grass land to the little river, and over a hand-bridge, and up another meadow full of trees and bushes, to a gate which came out into the road again a little to this side of the Moonstock Inn, saving a quarter of a mile of road, which ran straight up the valley and turned square at the stone bridge to get to the same inn.
I do hope and believe He will. "We heard a noise of horses in the valley, and the clank of swords no doubt the mounted police from Winchester a-crossing of the Moonstock Bridge to search our house for the runaway. And the Captain took my hand, and said, 'I trust them to you. Hide the clothes I took off, that they may not know I have been here.
His calm, methodical way of telling his tale, like a common adventure with a dog, was more shocking than any fury. "Then it was this. I watched him from the Moonstock Inn to a house in the village, where he dined with company; and I did not even know that it was the house of his son, your father so great a gulf is fixed between the legitimate and the bastard!
The house in which my father lived so long or rather, I should say, my mother, while he was away with his regiment and where we unfortunate seven saw the light, stands about half-way down the little village, being on the right-hand side of the road as you come down the valley from the Moonstock bridge.
But the whole of the little road of houses runs down the valley from the church-yard gate; and above the church, looking up the pretty valley, stands nothing but the mill and the plank bridge below it; and a furlong above that again the stone bridge, where the main road crosses the stream, and is consoled by leading to a big house the Moonstock Inn.
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