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The Caldigates, both father and son, were gifted with too strong a will to be turned from their purpose by such interference. But a great deal of confusion was occasioned; and aunt Polly among the Shands was regarded as a very wonderful woman indeed. 'Oh, my son, my darling son! she said, weeping on John Caldigate's shoulder.
The young Shands had generally lived a pleasant life; had gone to school, the eldest son, as we have seen, to the university also, and had had governesses, and ponies to ride, and had been great at dancing, and had shot arrows, and played Badminton, and been subject to but little domestic discipline.
S. Shands, member of assembly, and a wealthy proprietor, observed that he entertained precisely the same views with those just expressed; but he thought that the honorable gentleman had been unwise in uttering them in so public a manner; "for," said he, "should these sentiments reach the ear of parliament, as coming from us, it might induce them to withhold the compensation." Col.
'I hope she is at home, said Caldigate 'At home! Of course she's at home. She wouldn't be away when you're coming! The Shands were demonstrative, always; and never hypocritical. Here it was; told at once, the whole story. He was to atone for having left Dick in the lurch by marrying Maria.
But he never said a word of his feelings to any human being. John had promised to write. The promise had not been very enthusiastically given; but still, as the months went by it was constantly remembered. The young man, after leaving Cambridgeshire, had remained some weeks at the Shands' house before he had started; and from thence he had not written.
But the idea was by far too important to be brought in and explained at the fag-end of a chapter. All the Shands There had been something almost approaching to exultation at Babington when the tidings of Caldigate's alleged Australian wife were first heard there.
It might have been pleasant enough, this little interval before his voyage, as the Shands, though rough and coarse, were kind to him and good-humoured, had it not been that a great trouble befell him through over conscientiousness as to a certain matter.
'With a fixed determination to make a fortune, and come back, and be facile princeps among all the Shands. I have already made up my mind as to the sum I will give each of the girls, and the way I will start the two younger boys in business. In the meantime let us light a pipe. The Goldfinder
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