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Updated: July 13, 2025
"It was because he is so big that he did not catch him, Richard Winthorpe," said the engineer coldly. "The ice bore the person who fired the places, because he was skating." "Skating!" cried Dick, flushing up. "Yes, skating!" said Mr Marston. "Bargle says that the man hobbled over the ground in his skates, but as soon as he reached the ice he went off like a bird.
Mr Winthorpe improved in health, but always seemed to avoid any allusion to the outrage; and after the constables had been a few times and found out nothing, and the magistrates of the neighbourhood had held consultation, the trouble once more dropped.
He was what seems to me to-day the worstest thing unhung he was a Puritan. Like Winthorpe's, his blood was black and icy and vinegarish. Like Winthorpe But there. I mustn't abuse Winthorpe any more, and I must try to forgive Milton. Milton wrote seven good words, and Winthorpe unwittingly opened a lover's eyes to his condition."
But if the constable was not badly wounded, though the injury caused by a bullet passing through his leg was an ugly one, the reputations of Dick Winthorpe and Tom Tallington had received such ugly wounds that their fathers found it difficult to get them cured.
Squire Winthorpe was of a different opinion that night when Dick reached home after seeing Tom well on his way. "They're going on famously now," he said to Mrs Winthorpe, who was repairing the damage in one of Dick's garments. "And was the meeting satisfied?" "Yes, quite," said the squire.
They answered the call with a stentorian roar; and if Dick Winthorpe had imitated Richard the Second just then, and called upon the crowd to accept him as their leader, they would have followed him to the attempt of any mad prank he could have designed. "Thank ye, Mester Dick!" said Hickathrift, placing his great hand upon the lad's shoulder, as the squire forced his way to their side.
"I adore," he said, "our light and airy British way of tarring Americans and Australians with the same brush, the descendants of transported convicts and the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers!" "Is your Winthorpe man a descendant of the Pilgrim Fathers?" asked Lady Blanchemain, dryly. "Indeed he is," said John.
But there was no discovery made, the constables setting it down to accident, saying that the men must have been smoking; and once more the fen was left to its own resources. Mr Winthorpe grew rapidly better after the first fortnight, and Dick watched his convalescence with no little anxiety, for he expected to hear him accuse Farmer Tallington of being his attempted murderer.
"I am very sorry, Mr Winthorpe, and I do it unwillingly, but appearances are very much against him." "They are," said the squire gravely. "I like Dick; I always did like Dick," said the engineer; "and it seems to me horrible to have to suspect such a lad as he is; but put yourself in my place, Mr Winthorpe. Can you be surprised?"
Dick Winthorpe christened Richard by order of his father at the Hall sat on the top of the big post by the wheelwright's door.
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