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The real state of the case at once flashed upon the minds of all present, with the exception of the Fleetwoods and the Wakefields. The facetious Hardy, in fulfilment of his promise, had watched the child to a remote part of the vessel, and, suddenly appearing before him with the most awful contortions of visage, had produced his paroxysm of terror.
Afterwards, when the Ngatiawa decided to abandon their much-harried land, Barrett moved with them to Cook's Straits, where, in 1839, the Wakefields found him looking jovial, round, and ruddy, dressed in a straw hat, white jacket, and blue dungaree trousers, and married to a chief's daughter a handsome and stately woman.
‘Ease her!’ cried the captain: ‘do these people belong to us, sir?’ ‘Noakes,’ exclaimed Hardy, who had been looking at every object far and near, through the large telescope, ‘it’s the Fleetwoods and the Wakefields—and two children with them, by Jove!’ ‘What a shame to bring children!’ said everybody; ‘how very inconsiderate!’
While it was going on Henry Williams and other missionaries urged the chiefs not to sell. But with the goods spread out before them especially the muskets the chiefs were not to be stopped. The Wakefields justified the transactions on the ground that population would rapidly make the ten per cent. of the country reserved for the natives more valuable than the whole.
From Scotland, they went to London, thence to Calais, where Miss Turner was found by her relatives and taken away. The Wakefields were tried at Lancaster. Edward was found guilty of abduction and sentenced to transportation. He went to Australia in pursuance of his sentence, and after some years became the Government commissioner. The marriage with Miss Turner was not consummated.
My duties will not suffer me to depart, even were I so inclined. What would my children do?" "Ah, what indeed? The school would certainly go to rack and ruin." "And my old friends, the Harpers and the Wakefields?" "Why, the old ladies would very soon die of a broken heart, no doubt of it; and then, there's our dispensary and little hospital. Why, where should we look for a new apothecary?"
The haste, the secrecy, the sharp practice, of the New Zealand Company were forced on the Wakefields by the mulish obstinacy of careless or irrational people.
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