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Holt put the case uncommonly well. 'No! we knew, he continued, with a wave of his hand. 'But the jury weren't Netherden men, nor yet Utterden, Mr. Halfacre, he added, turning to a tenant from the other parish. 'And they couldn't tell how it all was as we could.
Those who knew him in the neighbourhood were accustomed to say that he had quarrelled with everybody about him. In December the baby was born, just twelve months after the marriage, and there was great demonstrations of joy, and ringing of bells in the parishes of Utterden and Netherden. The baby was a boy, and all was as it ought to be.
Even the clergyman, however absorbed he might have been in his sacred work, could not but have observed them. It was not there as it might have been in a town. Any stranger, even on a Sunday, would be observed by all in Utterden church, how much then at a ceremony which, as a rule, none but friends attend!
But the people, especially the people of Utterden and Netherden, and of Chesterton, and even of Cambridge, were all on the side of Caldigate and Hester as a married couple. They liked the persistency with which he had claimed his wife, and applauded her to the echo for her love and firmness. Of course the scene at Puritan Grange had been much exaggerated.
None of them were so expressive as Holt, but he could perceive that he was regarded by all of them as a person who, by his conduct, was bringing misfortune, not only on himself, but on the whole parishes of Utterden and Netherden. At dinner the Squire conversed upon various subjects if not easily to himself, at least with affected ease.
Halfacre, 'we'd 'ave found the beer at Utterden. There wouldn't have been no grudging the beer, Mr. Brownby, no more than there is in the lower parish; but you can't get up a peal merely on beer. You've got to have bells. While they were still standing at the gate, Mr. Bromley the clergyman joined them, and walked back towards the house with the two Caldigates.
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