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Smirkie, indeed, did not utter a word on any subject, till at an early hour he wished them all good-night with dignified composure. How The Big-Wigs Doubted It's what I call an awful shame. Mr. Holt and parson Bromley were standing together on the causeway at Folking, and the former was speaking.
There need not have been much intercourse between Puritan Grange and Folking; but then also there need be no quarrel. He was desirous that Caldigate should be allowed to come to the house, and that even visits of ceremony should be made to Folking. But Mrs. Bolton would have nothing to do with such half friendship. In the time that was coming she must be everything or nothing to her daughter.
Caldigate was a country squire with a moderate income, living in a moderate house called Folking, in the parish of Utterden, about ten miles from Cambridge. Here he owned nearly the entire parish, and some portion of Netherden, which lay next to it, having the reputation of an income of £3,000 a-year. It probably amounted to about two-thirds of that.
But it will be for you to consider whether you can find such stain of perjury merely because the impression on the envelope is clear and clean. When he came to the present condition of Caldigate's wife and child at Folking, he was very tender in his speech, but even his tenderness seemed to turn itself against the accused.
He shook hands, of course, with both of them, and then he stood a moment silent to hear how they would address him. But as they also were silent he was compelled to speak. 'I hope you got home all right, sir, yesterday; and Mrs. Bolton. The old man did not answer, but he turned his face round to his son. 'I hear that you had that man Crinkett out at Folking yesterday, said Robert.
Of course he was praised and petted, as indeed he deserved; and thus, though the house at Folking was a sad house, he enjoyed himself, as men do when much is made of them by pretty women. But the result of all this was that every detail of the story became known to the public, and was quite common down at Cambridge. The old squire was urgent with Mr.
Indeed it seemed to him now that were he to return to England with a fortune made, he would hardly come to Folking. Years and years must roll by before that could be done. If he could only come back to Cambridge and fetch that wife away with him, then he thought it would be better for him to live far from England, whether he were rich or whether he were poor.
It had been necessary to him to seek counsel with some one, but he had mentioned the matter only to his brother William. But he did not wish to add to the bond which now tied him to Folking.
But she did not think of her bonnet nor of her boots, nor of the horror which it would be to her should she be driven to wander forth into the town, and to seek a conveyance back to Folking in the public streets. She went on a Monday with an understanding that she was to remain there till Wednesday. Mrs.
The sum of money which was to be offered to him, and which was to be raised on the Folking property, would enable him to pay Davis, and to start upon his career with plentiful means in his pocket. He would, too, be wise and not risk all his capital. Shand had a couple of thousand pounds, and he would start with a like sum of his own.
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