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And yet I fain would see to-day. I am looking for the Victory. 'Why, she said quickly. 'I have a son aboard her. He's one of three from these parts. There's the captain, there's my son Ned, and there's young Loveday of Overcombe he that lately joined. 'Shall I look for you? said Anne, after a pause. 'Certainly, mis'ess, if so be you please.
'But you don't know, father how should you know, who have hardly been out of Overcombe in your life? you don't know what delicate feelings are in a real refined woman's mind. Any little vulgar action unreaves their nerves like a marline-spike. Now I wonder if you did anything to disgust her? 'Faith! not that I know of, said Loveday, reflecting.
By this time the volunteers were on the march, and as Derriman ascended the road he met the Overcombe company, in which trudged Miller Loveday shoulder to shoulder with the other substantial householders of the place and its neighbourhood, duly equipped with pouches, cross-belts, firelocks, flint-boxes, pickers, worms, magazines, priming-horns, heel- ball, and pomatum.
An Overcombe man in those days would have a best coat, and keep it as a best coat half his life. The miller's had seen five and twenty summers chiefly through the chinks of a clothes-box, and was not at all shabby as yet, though getting singular. But that could not be helped; common coats and best coats were distinct species, and never interchangeable.
How far are we from Overcombe? 'About a mile. But tell me, somebody has been hurting you frightening you. I know who it was; it was Derriman, and that was his horse. Now do you tell me all. Anne reflected. 'Then if I tell you, she said, 'will you discuss with me what I had better do, and not for the present let my mother and your father know?
This information soon spread through the village and country round, and next morning the whole population of Overcombe except two or three very old men and women, a few babies and their nurses, a cripple, and Corporal Tullidge ascended the slope with the crowds from afar, and awaited the events of the day. The miller wore his best coat on this occasion, which meant a good deal.
To them the art of enjoying good company in Overcombe Mill, the details of the miller's household, the swarming of his bees, the number of his chickens, and the fatness of his pigs, were matters of infinitely greater concern.
His eyes were stretched towards a distant field, which Anne Garland was at that moment hastily crossing, on her way from the hall to Overcombe. 'I must be off. Good-day to ye, dear creature! he exclaimed, hurrying forward. The lady said, 'O, you droll monster! as she smiled and watched him stride ahead.
'Heads I go; tails I don't. The piece of gold spun in the air and came down heads. 'No, I won't go, after all, he said. 'I won't be steered by accidents any more. He picked up his bundle and switch, and retraced his steps towards Overcombe Mill, knocking down the brambles and nettles as he went with gloomy and indifferent blows. When he got within sight of the house he beheld David in the road.
He who had accompanied them was the quartermaster. 'And so you see they have got all the lines marked out by the time the regiment have come up, he added. 'And then they will well-a-deary! who'd ha' supposed that Overcombe would see such a day as this! 'And then they will 'Then Ah, it's gone from me again! said Simon.
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