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"Mrs Greenow, just at present there's only one woman in the world that I can think of." "And that's my niece." "And that's yourself. I'm a broken-hearted man, I am, indeed. I didn't ever think I should feel so much about a thing of the kind I didn't, really. I hardly know what to do with myself; but I suppose I'd better go back to Oileymead."
Charlie's mother had been the daughter of a small squire who had let his land to tenants, and she was, therefore, justified by circumstances in looking down upon a farmer. The matter was so settled, pending the consent of Mr Cheesacre; and Bellfield went out to Oileymead.
I suppose if I was to talk for ever it wouldn't be any good?" "Come and talk to Kate Vavasor for ever, Mr Cheesacre." To this he made no reply, but went forth from the house, and got his gig, and drove himself home to Oileymead, thinking of his disappointment with all the bitterness of a young lover.
And hearing this, he would walk out among those rich heaps, at the back of his farmyard, uttering deep curses against the falsehood of men and the fickleness of women. Driven to despair, he at last resolved to ask Bellfield to come to Oileymead for a month. That drilling at Norwich, or the part of it which was supposed to be profitable, was wearing itself out.
He even fee'd Charlie Fairstairs, Miss Fairstairs I mean, with gloves, and chickens from Oileymead, so that he might know whether that kite fluttered about his dovecoat, and of what nature were the flutterings. He went even further than this, and fee'd the Captain himself, binding him down not to flutter as value given in return for such fees.
There never was such a mistake as that. I have the highest regard and esteem for Miss Vavasor, but really " "Mr Cheesacre, what am I to say to you?" "What are you to say to me? Say that you'll be mine. Say that I shall be yours. Say that all I have at Oileymead shall be yours.
Do you know, we had a long debate this morning whether or no we would return them to Oileymead?" "Return them, Mrs Greenow!" "Yes, indeed: what are women, situated as we are, to do under such circumstances? When gentlemen will be too liberal, their liberality must be repressed." "And have I been too liberal, Mrs Greenow?
A very nice little dinner they had. The captain carved the turkey, giving due honour to Mr Cheesacre as he did so; and when he nibbled his celery with his cheese, he was prettily jocose about the richness of the farmyard at Oileymead. "He is the most generous man I ever met," said Mrs Greenow. "So he is," said Captain Bellfield, "and we'll drink his health. Poor old Cheesy!
Do you suppose I can't see? I'll tell you what, now; if you'll go clean out of Norwich for a month, I'll lend you two hundred pounds on the day she becomes Mrs Cheesacre." "And where am I to go to?" "You may stay at Oileymead, if you like; that is, on condition that you do stay there." "And be told that I hack the ham because it's not my own. Shall I tell you a piece of my mind, Cheesacre?"
Oileymead would always be open to Captain and Mrs Bellfield. "We all know your hospitality," said she; "it is not to-day nor to-morrow that I or my husband, that is to be, will have to learn that. He always declares that you are the very beau ideal of an English country gentleman." "Merely a poor Norfolk farmer," said Cheesacre. "I never want to put myself beyond my own place.
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