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For full an hour she had to wait, and then Gribbles and Poulter did go. But it was not in such matters as this that Patience Woolsworthy was impatient. She could wait, and wait, and wait, curbing herself for weeks and months, while the thing waited for was in her eyes good; but she could not curb her hot thoughts or her hot words when things came to be discussed which she did not think to be good.
'Do, papa, she said, 'if you are not too tired. And yet she had thought how probable it might be that she should meet John Broughton on her walk. And so it was arranged; but, just as dinner was over, Mr. Woolsworthy remembered himself. 'Gracious me, he said, 'how my memory is going! Gribbles, from Ivybridge, and old John Poulter, from Bovey, are coming to meet here by appointment.
Now Captain John Broughton was the second son of Alfonso Broughton, of Clapham Park and Eaton Square, Member of Parliament, and Lord of the aforesaid Government Board. "And what do you mean to do with him?" Patience Woolsworthy asked of Miss Le Smyrger when that lady walked over from the Combe to say that her nephew John was to arrive on the following morning. "Do with him?
'Patty, her father said to her before they went to bed, 'he seems to me to be a most excellent young man. 'Dear papa, she answered, kissing him. 'And terribly deep in love, said Mr. Woolsworthy. 'Oh, I don't know about that, she answered, as she left him with her sweetest smile.
When Patience Woolsworthy had answered him coldly, bidding him go back to London and think over his love; while it seemed from her manner that at any rate as yet she did not care for him; while he was absent from her, and, therefore, longing for her, the possession of her charms, her talent and bright honesty of purpose had seemed to him a thing most desirable. Now they were his own.
Let me caution you, Master John, not to talk to Patty about her own sphere. 'Aunt Penelope, as Patience is to be my wife and not yours, I must claim permission to speak to her on such subjects as may seem suitable to me. And then they parted not in the best humour with each other. On the following day Captain Broughton and Miss Woolsworthy did not meet till the evening.
When Patience Woolsworthy had answered him coldly, bidding him go back to London and think over his love; while it seemed from her manner that at any rate as yet she did not care for him; while he was absent from her, and, therefore, longing for her, the possession of her charms, her talent, and bright honesty of purpose had seemed to him a thing most desirable. Now they were his own.
'And assuredly I shall be happy to see you, John if you come with a certain purpose. If you have no such purpose, you had better remain away. 'I shall assuredly come, the Captain had replied, and then he had gone on his journey. The summer passed rapidly by, and very little was said between Miss Le Smyrger and Miss Woolsworthy about Captain Broughton.
Woolsworthy was allowed by his daughter to be quite paramount on his own subject for he had a subject he did not object to his daughter being paramount on all others.
As for Captain Broughton, all the world knows that he did marry that great heiress with whom his name was once before connected, and that he is now a useful member of Parliament, working on committees three or four days a week with zeal that is indefatigable. Sometimes, not often, as he thinks of Patience Woolsworthy a smile comes across his face. By Hubert Crackanthorpe
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