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No one in the country was so clever in selecting time and weather for cutting and carting; no one so cunning in ascertaining the most opportune moments for selling, or so far-seeing with regard to prices. At this very moment Peter Rorke was gazing at an immense rick of "prime old hay" which he had had the prudence to keep back while all his neighbours were selling.
You will one day be Lord Mount Rorke, and to see my darling Maggie sharing your honours will be that is to say if I live to see it a great, a very gre great hon our." Feeling much embarrassed Frank begged of him not to mention it. "I shall be writing to-morrow or next day to my uncle; shall I say that you have given your consent to my marriage with your daughter?
Rorke," he cried, "ye don't mane what ye are sayin'. Ye'd never have the heart to turn them two ould craturs out on the roadside to die?" "Wouldn't I though?" retorted Peter; "ye'll soon find out for yourselves whether I would or not." He turned and was hastening homewards, when Mike called after him. The old man faced him, still sneering.
"He'll have to do without them; if he wants peaches, he had better bring some down from Covent Garden." A knock was heard at the door. "Please Miss, Mr. Escott is in the drawing-room." "Tell him I will be downstairs in a moment," cried Maggie. "Now off you go, my Lady Mount Rorke," said Sally, who had already begun to regret her promises, and to consider if she had not better break them.
And, as she turned, she caught a glimpse of the detective. The man was nearer much nearer. But it was only a little way, just a little way, to Gypsy Nan's not so far as the distance between her and Rorke and and if the man didn't gain too fast, then then A little cry of dismay came with a new and terrifying thought. Quite apart from Rorke, some one else might see her enter Gypsy Nan's!
My only fear is that he'll want to marry you himself. So, you see, my own darling, my uncle is on the 'give, and we shall win soon and easily. The only real obstacle is your father's pig-headedness on all matters in which money enters. I think with terror of his meeting with Mount Rorke. If he speaks to Mount Rorke as he spoke to me, my uncle will take up his hat and wish him good-morning.
She had introduced Frank as Lord Mount Rorke's son, then as his nephew, then as his heir, and, fearing she might succumb to the temptation of introducing him as Mount Rorke himself, Frank escaped from her, and joined a party that Berkins was personally conducting through the grounds. The stables had been built by So-and-so on the most approved principles.
I had thought and indeed I think still that if my uncle makes me a sufficient allowance, that we might avoid touching on this matter at all. Lord Mount Rorke is an irritable man, and I am sure that if you were to speak to him as you " "Pooh! pooh! Nonsense! nonsense! You don't suppose I am going to give my daughter to a man unless he can settle a sufficient sum of money upon her?
Every spot of ground has its own particular recollections. Mount Rorke is covered with trees great woods of beech and fir and at the end of every vista you see a piece of blue mountain. A river passes behind the castle, winding through the park; there are bridges, and swans float about the sedges, and there are deer in the glades.
"Didn't I tell ye I would work it off, little by little?" said Mike, who had suddenly become very pale. "It was me poor mother bein' sick last year that thrun us back, an' you said ye would have patience wid us." "Then ye had a right to behave better," returned Rorke. "How dar' ye go make up to my granddaughter, you young villain? I'd have ye to know that Miss Rorke is not for the likes of you."
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