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He had always broadened his back to bear the full burden of his large family. But even at this moment he was a little melancholy as he thought of the difficulty of finding employment for the wearer of those yellow trousers. How was it possible that a man should continue to live an altogether idle life at Pollington and still remain a teetotaller?
But when the little volume appeared, just as though it had been kept close to his heart during all these four years, of course she was entitled to hope. He had never opened the book since that morning in his cabin, not caring for the academic beauties of Thomson's 'Seasons; had never looked at it till it had occurred to him as proper that he should take it with him to Pollington.
The fact indicated a wider stroll than round inside the park: Crossjay was likewise absent. De Craye nodded to himself. Willoughby struck a rattling blow on the barometer. "Where's Pollington?" he called, and sent word for his man Pollington to bring big fishing-boots and waterproof wrappers. An urgent debate within him was in progress.
Mr. Pollington and certain City gentlemen hearing the poor General's renewed soliloquies, were seized with disgust of Lady Camper's conduct, and stoutly advised an application to the Law Courts. Barcop on the weather, and replying in acquiescence: 'It is hot. If your ladyship will only abstain from colours.
He had come back as a rich man to his own country, while Dick was a miserable Queensland shepherd. It was very well for him to tell his father that a few glasses of whisky had made the difference; but it would be difficult to explain this to the large circle at Pollington, and very disagreeable even to him to allude to it.
There was but little doubt that such had been the fate of Dick, unless, perhaps, in the bosom of Maria and of his mother. It was known too at Pollington, as well as elsewhere in the month of August, that efforts were still to be made with the view of upsetting the verdict.
Pollington, an amiable widow, relict of a large City warehouse, named Barcop, was chilled by a falling off in his attentions. His apology for not appearing at garden parties was, that he was engaged to wait on Lady Camper. And at one time, her not condescending to exchange visits with the obsequious General was a topic fertile in irony. But she did condescend.
'Maria has been thinking so much about your coming, said the youngest, not the girl who had been impertinent and ill-behaved before, for she had since become a grown-up Miss Shand, and had a young attorney of her own on hand, and was supposed to be the one of the family most likely to carry her pigs to a good market, but the youngest of them all who had been no more than a child when he had been at Pollington before.
Behind are "Methley," Lord Pollington, in a broad-brimmed hat, and the booted leg of Kinglake, who modestly hid his figure by a tree, but exposed his foot, of which he was very proud. Of the other characters, "Our Lady of Bitterness" was Mrs. Procter, "Carrigaholt" was Henry Stuart Burton of Carrigaholt, County Clare.
His train left Pollington at nine, and at eight the doctor with all his family were there to greet him at the breakfast-table, with all the family except Maria. The mother, in the most natural tone in the world, said that poor Maria had a headache and could not come down.
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