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Solomon must marry the damaged daughter, the rent-farmer had insisted to the learned boy's father, who had replied as pertinaciously, "No, I want the straight-legged sister." The poor young man writhed afresh at the thought of his father's obstinacy.
The landlord found the business of watching his tenants tedious and unprofitable, and naturally resorted to the crowning evil of agricultural evils the employment of a rent-farmer.
She put her mouth to his ear and whispered: "That's where the rent-farmer lives ... and he's a bad, bad man. He does wicked things to the little girls who go into the wood; and mother says that then they fall ill and die and then they go to Hell!" Doorke did not understand very well, but he saw from Horieneke's wide-open eyes that it was serious.
Amid the turmoil, the rent-farmer came up to Frazie, took her impudently by the arm, laughingly wished her proficiat with her pretty daughter and, after slyly looking about him for confirmation, said, half in earnest: "We're planting potatoes to-morrow at the Rent Farm, we shall want lots of hands; missie may as well come too." And with that he went back to his game of cards.
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