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Stephen Anerley, I forgive you. This is the right stuff, and no mistake. Deborah, come and kiss the farmer." Mrs. Popplewell obeyed her husband, as the manner of good wives is. And over and above this fleeting joy, solid satisfaction entered into noble hearts, which felt that now the fruit of laborious years, and the cash of many a tanning season, should never depart from the family.
If I intruded upon your daughter, so as to justify her in knocking me down, Captain Anerley, it was because well I won't say, Mary, I won't say; we have all been young; and our place is to know better." "Sir, you are a gentleman," cried Popplewell with heat; "here is my hand, and you may trespass on my premises, without bringing any attorney." "Did you say her eighth baby?
Strangers also from outlandish parts, Squire Popplewell and his wife Deborah, Mrs. These had a fair and double-horsed carriage in the lane, at the spot where fish face their last tribunal; and scarcely any brains but those of Flamborough could have absorbed such a spectacle as this, together with the deeper expectations from the sea.
Mary, you know where the old Mydeary wine is that come from your godfathers and godmothers when you was called in baptism. Take you the key from your mother, child, and bring you up a bottle, and brother Popplewell will open it, for such things is beyond me."
Even now it was in his mind, as Carroway could see; his eyebrows meant it, and his very surly nod, and the way in which he put his hands far down into his pockets. But the tanner only frowned, and squared his elbows, and stuck his knuckles sharply out of both his breeches pockets. And Mrs. Popplewell, like a fat and most kind-hearted lady, stared at the officer as if she longed to choke him.
Therefore he would not give any opinion, except that everybody would be sorry by-and-by, when things were too late for mending. To this the farmer listened with an air of wisdom, not put forward too severely; because Brother Popplewell had got a lot of money, and must behave handsomely when in a better world.
Therefore she could not express at the moment her gratitude to Squire Popplewell; but as soon as she heard of his generosity, it lifted a great weight off her mind, and enabled her to think about furnishing a cottage. But she never told even her mother of that. Perhaps Robin might have seen some one he liked better.
Oh, Commander Carroway," Mrs. Popplewell began to whisper; "what a most interesting situation! Oh, I see why you have such high color, Sir." "Madam, it is enough to make me pale. At the same time I do like sympathy; and my dear wife loves the smell of tan."
I took to free trade for the sake of my friends to support the old couple who have been so good to me." "That is better still; it shows such good principle. My uncle Popplewell has studied the subject of what they call 'political economy, and he says that the country requires free trade, and the only way to get it is to go on so that the government must give way at last.
Lieutenant Carroway, in full uniform, was come to Anerley Farm that afternoon; not for a moment to complain of Mary, but to do his duty, and to put things straight; while Mary had insisted upon going home at once from the hospitable house of Uncle Popplewell, who had also insisted upon going with her, and taking his wife to help the situation.
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