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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Run to the gate, I tell you!" whack! whack! whack! whack! whack! Thus ordered, Zoe Vizard, who would not have moved of herself, being in a collapse of fear, scudded to the gate, got on the right side of it, and looked over, with two eyes like saucers. She saw a sight incredible to her. Instead of letting the bull alone, now she was safe, Uxmoor was sticking to him like a ferret.
Ride her on these downs an hour or two very day. I'll send her over to-morrow. May I?" "If you like. Rosa would pack up my riding-habit." "Rosa was a prophetess." Next day came Phillis, saddled. and led by a groom on horseback, and Uxmoor soon followed on an old hunter. He lifted Zoe to her saddle, and away they rode, the groom following at a respectful distance.
He cooed and wooed and flattered and fascinated; and by the time they reached the farm had driven Uxmoor out of her head. Miss Gale was out. The farmer's wife said she had gone into the town meaning Hillstoke which was, strictly speaking, a hamlet or tributary village. Hillstoke church was only twelve years old, and the tithes of the place went to the parson of Islip.
She even glimpsed a vista of consequences, and in that little avenue discerned the figure of Fanny Dover playing the part of consoler, friend, and ultimately spouse to a wealthy noble. THE letters were brought in; one was to Vizard, from Herries, announcing a remittance; one to Lord Uxmoor. On reading it, he was surprised into an exclamation, and his face expressed great concern.
That day Uxmoor dined alone with his mother, for a wonder, and he told her how Miss Vizard had come round; he told her also about the bull, but so vilely that she hardly comprehended he had been in any danger: these encounters are rarely described to the life, except by us who avoid them except on paper. Lady Uxmoor was much pleased.
"Do you hear that?" said Vizard, piteously, to Uxmoor. "Threatened and cajoled in one breath. Who can resist this fatal sex? Miss Gale, I will bore a well on Hillstoke common. Any idea how deep we must go to the antipodes, or only to the center?" "Three hundred and thirty feet, or thereabouts." "No more? Any idea what it will cost?" "Of course I have.
These, however, came in through a country agent from a town agent, and left no clew. But one fine day, with no warning except to his own people, Lord Uxmoor came home; and the next day rode to Hillstoke to talk matters over with Miss Gale. He was fortunate enough to find her at home.
"For," said he, "I have no coach and four, and I am very unhappy." This and his staying sullenly at home spoiled Zoe's ride, and she was cool to Uxmoor, and spoiled his drive. At night Zoe peeped through the curtain and saw Severne standing in the moonlight. She drank him in for some time in silence, then softly opened her window and looked out. He took a step nearer.
Admiration and gratitude being now added to esteem, Zoe received Lord Uxmoor next day with a certain timidity and half tenderness she had never shown before; and, as he was by nature a rapid wooer, he saw his chance, and stayed much longer than usual, and at last hazarded a hope that he might be allowed to try and win her heart. Thereupon she began to fence, and say that love was all folly.
He then rang the bell, and sent for Harris, and ordered him to prepare the blue chamber for Lord Uxmoor, and see the things aired himself. Harris having retired, cat-like, Vizard explained, "My womankind shall not kill Uxmoor. He is a good fellow, and his mania we have all got a mania, my young friends is a respectable one. He wants to improve the condition of the poor against their will."
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