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Updated: May 12, 2025
"The train must ha' been poonctual," went on Bainton, staring stolidly at the shining water. "Amazin' poonctual for once in its life. For a one 'oss fly, goin' at a one 'oss fly pace, 'as jes' passed through the village, and is jiggitin' up to the Manor this very minute. I s'pose Miss Vancourt's inside it." Walden paused, punt-pole in hand. "Yes, I suppose she is," he rejoined.
Tapple, bridling with scorn, said she 'wondered 'ow a man like 'im wot only made his money in bone-boilin' would dare to be seen with Miss Vancourt's real quality' it was felt that she was expressing an almost national sentiment.
"Miss Vancourt's instructions?" echoed Walden; "Has she given any?" "Of coorse she has!" replied Bainton, triumphantly; "Which is that the trees is not to be touched on no account. And she's told Spruce, through me, which I bellowed it all into his ear, to go and meet Leach this marnin' up by the Five Sisters and give him 'er message straight from the shoulder!"
All the members of the house-party stared, they had taken scarcely any notice of Cicely Bourne, looking upon her as more or less beneath their notice as a 'child picked up in Paris' a 'waif and stray' a 'fad of Maryllia Vancourt's' and now here was this wild grey-haired man of renown bringing her into sudden prominent notice.
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