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"I did, and always shall, regard her as a most excellent young woman." "She showed her sense in refusing you," said Sir Thomas. "I think she did," said Ralph. "And I doubt much whether my niece will not be equally sensible." "Ah, I can say nothing as to that." "Were she to hear this story of Miss Neefit I am sure she would refuse you." "But you would not tell it to her, as yet!
The dinner was at last over, and the port-wine was carried out into the arbour; not, on this occasion, by Polly, but by the maid. Polly and Mrs. Neefit went off together, while Ralph crowded into the little summer-house with Moggs and Neefit. In this way half an hour was passed, a half hour of terrible punishment. But there was worse coming. "Mr.
Neefit, the breeches-maker, and his daughter, are also good in their way, and Moggs, the daughter's lover, who was not only lover, but also one of the candidates at Percycross as well. But the main thread of the story, that which tells of the doings of the young gentlemen and young ladies, the heroes and the heroines, is not good.
Real gentlemen think a good deal of themselves, but not half so much as is thought of them by men who know that they themselves are of a different order. Ontario Moggs, as he went homewards by himself, was disturbed by various thoughts. If it really was to be the case that Polly Neefit wouldn't have him, why should he stay in a country so ill-adapted to his manner of thinking as this?
Moggs then proposed that he should have his customer's bill at three months, and the interview ended by the due manufacture of a document to that effect. Ralph, when he entered the shop, had not intended to give a bill; but the pressure had been too great upon him, and he had yielded. It would matter little, however, if he married Polly Neefit.
His due would not be given to the breeches-maker if it were not acknowledged that on this occasion he behaved very well. He had told Ralph to come to him when Moggs's "bit of stiff" came round. Moggs's "bit of stiff" did come round, and "the Captain" did as he had been desired to do. Neefit wrote out the cheque without saying a word about his daughter.
When Ontario put on his best clothes, and took himself out to Hendon on the previous Sunday, he did not probably calculate that, as one consequence of that visit, the Herr Bawwah would pass a whole week of intoxication in the little back parlour of the public-house near St. George's Church. It may be imagined how very unpleasant all this must have been to Miss Neefit herself.
Pop the question right out, and give her a buss. That's the way." Newton paused a moment before he spoke, and looked very grave. "I think you're driving me a little too fast, Mr. Neefit," he said at last. "The deuce I am! Driving you too fast. What does that mean?" "There must be a little management and deliberation in these things.
But the escape was the doing of fortune and Polly Neefit combined, and had not come of any intrigue on his own part. He was in a position, so he thought, absolutely to repudiate Neefit, and to throw himself upon facts for his protection; but then it was undoubtedly the case that for a year or two Mr. Neefit could make his life a burden to him.
"I'm blessed if it ain't true," said Waddle, convinced by the repetition of his own reading. News had previously reached the shop that the Squire had had a fall. Tidings as to troubles in the hunting-field were quick in reaching Mr. Neefit's shop; but there had been no idea that the accident would prove to be fatal. Neefit, when he went home that night, told his wife and daughter.
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