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Seeing it was generally uncomplimentary, most people preferred so to regard it; but my mother had never succeeded in schooling herself to indifference. "It's not a poky hole," she replied; "it's an old-fashioned house, near the river." "Plaistow marshes!" ejaculated my aunt, "calls it the river!" "So it is the river," returned my mother; "the river is the other side of the marshes."
And then she read the letter. 'Plaistow Hall, July, 186 . 'My dear Sir, 'I have not written to you before since your bereavement, thinking it better to wait awhile; but I hope you have not taken me to be unkind in this, or have supposed me to be unmindful of your sorrow. Now I take up my pen, hoping that I may make you understand how greatly I was distressed by what has occurred.
It was true that he farmed land that was half his own and that, even at Plaistow, he was a wealthy man; but Plaistow Hall, with all its comforts, was a farm-house; and the ambition to be more than a farmer had been strong upon him. But then there had been the feeling that in taking the Belton estate he would be robbing his Cousin Clara of all that should have been hers.
This made Will more disgusted with himself than ever, and before he could get out of the carpenter's yard he thoroughly wished himself back at Plaistow. But having come so far, he could hardly return without seeing his cousin, and at last he had himself driven over, reaching the house between eleven and twelve o'clock in the day.
Plaistow, if you are right, and there is something to be said for your view, in thinking that they both went to such lengths as to be in time for the early train, in order to fight a duel undisturbed, you must look for a more solid cause than that." Diva vainly racked her brains to think of anything more worthy of the highest pitches of emotion than this.
Reaction after the perils of the morning, crab and port combined to make a man of him. "Eh, 'tis a bonny wee drappie of port whatever, Mistress Plaistow," he said. "And I dinna ken that ye're far wrang in jaloosing that Mistress Mapp might have a wee bitty word to say aboot it a', 'gin she had the mind." "She was wrong about the portmanteau," said Diva. "Confessed she was wrong." "Hoots!
'It is very evident that you know nothing of Plaistow ways, or you would not say that anything coming from William was nonsense. We are accustomed to regard all his words as law, and when he says that a thing is to be so, it always is so. 'Then he is a tyrant at home. 'A beneficent despot. Some despots, you know, always were beneficent. 'He won't have his way in this thing.
In Elizabeth's time Plaistow Manor was rather a swell place, and belonged to some Roman Catholics who came to grief, and then the Howards got it. There's a whole history about it, only I don't care much about those things. 'And is it yours now? 'It's between me and my uncle, and I pay him rent for his part. He's a clergyman you know, and he has a living in Lincolnshire not far off.
It had occurred to her that he would have married earlier in life if she had not been, as it were, in his way; and she had threatened him playfully, for she could be playful, that she would leave him if he did not soon bring a mistress to Plaistow Hall. 'I will go to uncle Robert, she had said.
There were meetings at various places, Westminster, Norwich, and also at Plaistow, after the removal to Plashet brought the family within its sphere. At most of the meetings she took part, both in the worship and in visiting the poor or the sick. Then there were family cares, troubles, and bereavements.
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