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Reddin, and wear this gownd, and live at Undern, said Hazel. 'Eh? Sally was astonished. 'And he said there wunna any other but me. Sally laughed. 'You believed that lie? You little softie! Hazel looked at the children. 'Be they all his'n? she said. 'Every man-jack of 'em, and not so much as a thank you for me! The children were ranged near their mother on high chairs.
Marston slide past in her soft slippers with her characteristic walk, rather like skating. Hazel never dreamt that he had taken his shoes off for her sake. The moon, riding clear of cloud, flung the shadow of Edward's primroses on the bed a large round posy like a Christmas-pudding with outstanding leaves and flowers clearly defined, all very black on the counterpane. Undern seemed very far off.
Mist soft, woolly, and intensely white lay across the far plain in drifts, filled the valley, and stood about the distant hills almost to their summits. The tops of Hunter's Spinney, God's Little Mountain, and the hill behind Undern stood out darkly green. The long rose-briars, set with pale coral buds, looked elvish against the wintry scene.
If you keep on like this, I shall go mad. 'Why, Edward, you are all in a fever. There, there! It's more peaceful without her, and I wish Mr. Reddin well of her. 'Reddin? What Reddin? 'Mr. Reddin of Undern. Who else? 'Damn the fellow! 'Edward! What words you take on your lips! And just think, she went on sorrowfully, 'that he seemed such a nice man.
His coming into the house brought an armoured peace, but no sooner was he outside the door than the guns were unmasked again. Hazel wished more and more that she had stayed at Undern. She found a man's roughness preferable to women's velvet slaps, his most masterful demands less wearing than their silent criticism. At Undern she could not call her physical self her own.
And men of that country, that know the manner, let bind them up, or else might they not live, and anoint them with ointments made therefore, to hold them up. In that country and in Ethiopia, and in many other countries, the folk lie all naked in rivers and waters, men and women together, from undern of the day till it be past the noon.
'Now, is it me, said Vessons, reasonable but hurt, 'as generally brings these packs of unruly women to Undern? 'I believe you're lying, Vessons. Vessons opened his mouth to say, 'Notice is giv''; but seeing that in his master's present mood it might be accepted, he closed it again. When Reddin went in, Sally was gone, and Hazel, much as usual, ministered to his comfort.
At last, late certainly, but no matter, at last the invitation had come, not from her aunt, but from a stranger. That made it more exciting. 'I'm much obleeged, he said. 'Where at? 'D'you know Undern? 'I've heard tell on it. 'Well, it's two miles from here. Like to come? 'Ah! Will your mother be angry? 'I haven't one. 'Father? 'No. 'Who be there, then? 'Only Vessons and me.
Reddin went on his dubious and discreditable way, and the woman Sally Haggard, of the cottage in the hollow, gained by virtue of a certain harsh beauty what the ladies Clomber would have given all their wealth for. The other inhabitant of Undern, Andrew, revolved in his own orbit, and was entirely unknown to his master.
It did not matter with him, but Edward it was everything to her in Edward. Only once there had been a keen look of criticism in Edward's eyes, and her heart had fluttered. Edward said: 'Why, when you were dragged to Undern against your will, did you wear the man's gown? It wasn't dignified. And why did you cry out on him not to shame you? He could not shame you. You had done nothing wrong.
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