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Updated: June 2, 2025
We told him that Buddle had been sent for; and that we only awaited help to get him down to Redman's Farm. When Rachel heard the clang of hoofs and the rattle of the tax-cart driving down the mill-road, at a pace so unusual, a vague augury of evil smote her. She was standing in the porch of her tiny house, and old Tamar was sitting knitting on the bench close by.
There was only one letter the address was written 'Miss Lake, Redman's Farm, near Brandon Park, Gylingden, in a stiff hand, rather slanting backwards. Captain Lake put it in his paletot pocket, looked in her face gently, and smiled, and thanked her in his graceful way and, in fact, left an enduring impression upon that impressible nature.
To Rachel's eyes, that disappearing form looked like the moping spirit of guilt and regret, haunting the scene of the irrevocable. When Stanley took his leave after one of these visits stolen visits, somehow, they always seemed to her the solitary mistress of Redman's Farm invariably experienced the nervous reaction which follows the artificial calm of suppressed excitement.
'Come, Stanley, what do you want? said his sister, stopping short, and speaking with the flush of irritation on her cheek 'do you mean to walk to Redman's Dell, or have you anything unpleasant to say? 'Neither, I hope, said the captain, with his sleepy smile, his yellow eyes resting on the innocent grass blades before him. 'I don't understand you, Stanley.
Rachel's position had not been altered by her brother's marriage. Dorcas had urged her earnestly to give up Redman's Farm, and take up her abode permanently at Brandon. This kindness, however, she declined. She was grateful, but no, nothing could move her. The truth was, she recoiled from it with a species of horror.
'It has been on my mind this many a day to speak to you, Master Stanley; but whenever I meant to, summat came over me, and I couldn't. 'Well, well, well, said Lake, uneasily; 'I mean to call to-morrow, or next day, or some day soon, at Redman's Farm. I'll hear it then; this is no place, you know, Tamar, to talk in; besides I'm pressed for time, and can't stay now to listen.
How did it happen oh, how? you such a scholar, so clever, so handsome, my beautiful Willie how did you ever look down on poor wretched me? 'I think it will be fine, Willie, and Miss Lake will expect you at Redman's Farm; and little Fairy will go too; yes, you'd like to go, and mamma will stay at home, and try to be useful in her poor miserable way, and so on.
Redman's room, he gave me eight small pieces of paper, about an inch wide and two inches long, and told me to take them aside, where no one could see me, and write on them the names of such of my departed friends as I might think fit, and then wrap them up like pellets and bring them to him.
He looked at his watch again, and held it to his ear, and consulted it once more before he placed the tiny gold disk again in his pocket. 'This won't do, he muttered. With one of the candles in his hand he went out and made a hurried, peeping exploration, and soon, for the rooms were quickly counted in Redman's Farm, he found her chamber small, neat, simplex munditiis.
As he walked down the mill-road toward the town, he met Lord Chelford on his way to make enquiry about Rachel at Redman's Farm; and Lake, who, as we know, had just seen his sister, gave him all particulars. Chelford, like the lawyer, had heard from Mark Wylder that morning a few lines, postponing his return.
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