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When I think of the mischief she's always done here, by her example and her irreligion I can't forgive her. I don't believe you'll make any impression on Mr. Freeland; he's entirely under her thumb." Smoking slowly, and looking just over the top of his wife's head, Malioring answered: "I'll have a try; and don't you worry!" Lady Malloring turned away. Her soreness still wanted salve.
Felix interrupted quietly: "I draw it at Lady Malloring." "Well, I won't argue that with you. But it really is a scandal that Tod's wife should incite her young people to stir up the villagers. Goodness knows where that mayn't lead! Tod's cottage and land, you see, are freehold, the only freehold thereabouts; and his being a brother of Stanley's makes it particularly awkward for the Mallorings."
Derek bowed, and put his hand within his sister's arm. But Sheila did not move; she was trembling with anger. "Who are you," she suddenly burst out, "to dispose of the poor, body and soul? Who are you, to dictate their private lives? If they pay their rent, that should be enough for you." Lady Malloring moved swiftly again toward the bell.
I don't follow." "Live and let live." A part of Malloring undoubtedly responded to that curt saying, a part of him as strongly rebelled against it; and which impulse he was going to follow was not at first patent. "You see, YOU keep apart," he said at last. "You couldn't say that so easily if you had, like us, to take up the position in which we find ourselves." "Why take it up?"
The whole thing, they thought, must be voluntary, and they did not see any reason why, if it were left to the kindness and good intentions of the landowner, there should be any land question at all. Boards would be formed in every county on which such model landowners as Sir Gerald Malloring, or Lord Settleham himself, would sit, to apply the principles of goodwill.
We understand that you are acting in what you believe to be the interests of morality. All the same, won't you? Do!" "I'm very sorry, but I can't." "May we ask why?" Lady Malloring started, and transferred her glance to Derek. "I don't know," she said with a smile, "that I am obliged to account for my actions to you two young people. Besides, you must know why, quite well."
From the moment he heard of it he hardly spoke, and a perpetual little frown creased a brow usually so serene. In the early morning of the day after Malloring went back to town, he crossed the road to a field where the farmer, aided by his family and one of Malloring's gardeners, was already carrying the hay; and, taking up a pitchfork, without a word to anybody, he joined in the work.
Malloring cut him short: "Till they've withdrawn this demand, Simmons, I can't discuss that or anything." The agent coughed behind his hand. Naturally! Only perhaps there might be a way of wording it that would satisfy them. Never do to really let them have such decisions in their hands, of course! They were just passing Tod's. The cottage wore its usual air of embowered peace.
The accident that they were not reversed at birth has given the Malloring a thousandfold advantage." "It's no joke directing things," muttered Stanley. "No work is any joke; but I just put it to you: Simply as work, without taking in the question of reward, would you dream for a minute of swapping your work with the work of one of your workmen? No.
"Yes, often; why?" "He knows better than to touch it." "You mean you're helpless? But you oughtn't to be." The fellow was smiling again! "Then you don't mean to do anything?" Tod shook his head. Malloring flushed. "Now, look here, Freeland," he said, "forgive my saying so, but this strikes me as a bit cynical. D'you think I enjoy trying to keep things straight?" Tod looked up.
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