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Rymer thought it needless to acquaint Miss Shepperson with the fact that his brother, a creditor for three hundred pounds, had generously forgiven the debt. Miss Shepperson, lodging in a little bedroom, with an approving conscience to keep her company, hoped that her house would soon be let again. For a score of years the Rocketts had kept the lodge of Brent Hall.
"I can mail the deposit on the purchase money to-morrow morning, and we can have the thing completed in a fortnight or three weeks if you say so." "Friars Pardon Friars Pardon!" Sophie chanted rapturously, her dark gray eyes big with delight. "All the farms? Gale Anstey, Burnt House, Rocketts, the Home Farm, and Griffons? Sure you've got 'em all?" "Sure." He smiled. "And the woods?
Rocketts they found after some hours, four miles from a station, and, so far as they could, judge in the bumpy darkness, twice as many from a road. Trees, kine, and the outlines of barns showed shadowy about them when they alighted, and Mr. and Mrs. Cloke, at the open door of a deep stone-floored kitchen, made them shyly welcome.
Though Rockett's health broke down, and at length he could work hardly at all, their pleasant home was assured to the family; and at Sir Henry's death the nephew who succeeded him left the Rocketts undisturbed. But, under this new lordship, things were not quite as they had been.
Lady Shale and Hilda meant, no doubt, to give the Rocketts a good fright, and then contemptuously pardon them. She, in any case, would return to London without delay, and make no more trouble. A pity she had come to the lodge at all; it was no place for one of her spirit and her attainments. In the morning she packed.
Don't you like us exploring things together better than Pompeii?" George turned once more to look at the view. "Eight hundred acres go with the house the old man told me. Five farms altogether. Rocketts is one of 'em." "I like Mrs. Cloke. But what is the old house called?" George laughed. "That's one of the things you're expected to know. He never told me." The Clokes were more communicative.
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