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Updated: May 31, 2025
It's not your fault, no, lad!" this with a pitying look "an' no one's blamin' ye for what can't be 'elped but it's not a thing to be gotten over." Robin's grave nod of acquiescence was more eloquent than speech. Wixton dug his spade a little deeper into the pile of earth.
"If Farmer Jocelyn 'ad been a marryin' man, why, that would a' been the right thing," he went on "He might a' had a fine strappin' son to come arter 'im, a real born-an'-bred Jocelyn " Robin listened with acute interest. Why did not Wixton mention Innocent? Did he know she was not a Jocelyn? He waited, and Wixton went on "But, ye see, 'e wouldn't have none o' that.
Clifford," remarked this worthy, as he stuck his spade down in the heaped-up earth and leaned upon it, "it's a black day, forbye the summer sun! I never thort I'd a' thrown the mouls on the last Jocelyn. For last he is, an' there'll never be another like 'im!" "You're right there, Wixton," said Robin, sadly "I know the place can never be the same without him. I shall do my best but "
"Ay, ye'll do your best," agreed Wixton, with a foreboding shake of his grizzled head "but you're not a Jocelyn, an' your best'll be but a bad crutch, though there's Jocelyn blood in ye by ye'r mother's side. Howsomever it's not the same as the male line, do what we will an' say what we like!
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