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Miss Puffle had disgraced herself, and therefore he had thrown Buston Hall at the feet of Miss Thoroughbung. But now he had heard stories about that "excellent young man, Augustus Scarborough," which had shaken his faith. He had been able to exclaim indignantly that Harry Annesley had told a lie. "A lie!"
He had been thinking that moment of Miss Puffle, of how she would be superior to Miss Thoroughbung in many ways, so that he sat up in his bed, holding the untasted tea in his hand. "She's gone off with young Farmer Tazlehurst." "Miss Puffle gone off, and with her father's tenant's son!" "Yes indeed, sir. She and her father have been quarrelling for the last ten years, and now she's off.
They all said as there were more where that came from." "What should they mean by that?" "She'd indulge in low 'abits, such as never would have been put up with at Buston Hall, a-cursing and a-swearing " "Miss Puffle!" "Not herself, I don't say that; but it's like enough if you 'ad heard all. But them as lets others do it almost does it themselves.
It was from Augustus Scarborough that he had heard those evil stories about his own nephew. Therefore his belief was shaken; and it was by no means clear to him that there could be any other heir for their property. Miss Thoroughbung had proved herself to be altogether unfit for the high honor he had intended her. Miss Puffle had gone off with Farmer Tazlehurst's son. Mr.
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