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Look out some rooms fit for him, Albinia. 'I will try. Let me see if I could only recollect any; but Mr. Hope has the only really nice ones in the place. 'Somewhere he must be, if it is in this house. 'There is poor old Madame Belmarche's still empty, with Bridget keeping it. I wish he could have rooms there. 'Well, why not? Pettilove told me it must be let as two tenements.
'Not for you, papa. 'What? Did he write to his uncle? 'No, papa he wrote to me and to Mr. Pettilove. Cannot he be stopped, papa? Can he do any harm? Mr. Dusautoy and Mr. Pettilove think he can. 'You mean that he wishes to question the will? You may be quite secure, my dear. Nothing can be more safe. 'Oh, papa! I am so very glad.
'I like the people, said Albinia, 'but they never can be well while they live in such a shocking place. It is quite a disgrace to Bayford. 'It is in a sad state, said Mr. Dusautoy. 'I know I should like to set my brother upon that Mr. Pettilove, who they say will do nothing, exclaimed Albinia. The Vicar was going to have said something, but a look from his wife checked him.
'You did not think unjustly, my dear. I ought to have paid more attention to the state of affairs, and have kept Pettilove in order. But I knew nothing of English affairs, and was glad to be spared the unpleasant charge. The consequence of leaving a man like that irresponsible never occurred to me.
Not to be able to hinder him was so dreadful, when he wanted to pit Lucy and me against you. I could never have looked at you. I should always have felt that you had something to forgive me. 'I could not well have confounded you with Algernon, my dear, said Mr. Kendal. 'What did Pettilove mean? Do you know?
He charged the property with life incomes to his widow and daughters, and to me; but the land is in the hands of trustees until my son's majority, and Pettilove is the only surviving trustee. The burning colour mantled in Albinia's face, and almost inaudibly she said, 'I beg your pardon, Edmund; I have done you moat grievous injustice. I thought you would not see
The windows that wont open; the roofs that open too much; the dirt on the staircases, and, oh! the horrible smells! 'It shall not go on, said Mr. Kendal. 'I will look over the place. 'Not till the fever is out of it, hastily interposed Albinia. He made a sign of assent, and went on: 'I will certainly talk to Pettilove, and have the place repaired, if it be at my own expense.
Pettilove would raise the rent if anything were laid out on it. She went about talking indignantly of Mr. Pettilove's cruelty and rapacity, and when Mr. Dusautoy hinted that Pettilove was only agent, she exclaimed that the owner was worse, since ignorance alone could be excused. Who was the wretch? Some one, no doubt, who never came near the place, and only thought of it as money.
I knew that nobody but you could settle it for her, poor dear girl; she is so young and inexperienced, and one is so much at a loss without a gentleman. But this is very kind; I did not expect it in you, Mr. Kendal. And will you see Mr. Pettilove, and do all that is proper about settlements, as her poor dear papa would have done. Poor Pettilove, he was once very much in love with Maria!
Kendal prepared for the encounter with Pettilove, and his son begged to go with him, to which he consented, saying that it was time Gilbert should have an opinion in a matter that affected him so nearly. Gilbert's opinion of the interview was thus announced on his return: 'If there ever was a brute in the world, it is that Pettilove! 'Then he wont consent to do anything? 'No, indeed!
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