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'It's very good of you, Mr Crumb, to think of an old woman like me, particularly when you've such a deal of trouble with a young un'. 'It's like the smut in the wheat, Mrs Pipkin, or the d'sease in the 'tatoes; it has to be put up with, I suppose. Is she very partial, ma'am, to that young baronite? This question was asked of Mrs Hurtle. 'Just a fancy for the time, Mr Crumb, said the lady.
A whipping at the cart-tail ought to be the ways on her. She's been and seen some young buck. Then John Crumb turned red all over, through the flour, and sparks of anger flashed from his eyes. 'You ain't a meaning of it, master? 'I'm told there's been the squoire's cousin aboot, him as they call the baronite. 'Been along wi' Ruby? The old man nodded at him.
Certainly, my Baronite, reading the fascinating record of a roundabout tour, feels prompted to steal away. Mary Stuart Boyd, who pens the record, has the great advantage of the collaboration of A.S.B., whose signature is familiar in Mr. Punch's Picture Gallery.... A charming book."
Mrs Hurtle saw the poor man and told the story in Mrs Pipkin's presence. 'She's headstrong, Mr Crumb, said Mrs Hurtle. 'She is that, ma'am. And it was along wi' the baronite she went? 'It was so, Mr Crumb. 'Baro-nite! Well; perhaps I shall catch him some of these days; went to dinner wi' him, did she? Didn't she have no dinner here? Then Mrs Pipkin spoke up with a keen sense of offence.
The cross-grained old man held out for a long time, alleging that the girl was no better than she should be, and that she had run away with the baronite. But this assertion was met by so strong a torrent of contradiction, that the farmer was absolutely driven out of his own convictions.
As he himself said sometimes afterwards, he had 'dropped into the baronite' just in time, and, having been successful in this, felt no wrath against Ruby for having made such an operation necessary.
Powis, a much genteeler name; and as they spoke to some one in the ladies' cabin as 'Sir George, I should not be overcome with astonishment should Mr. Sharp actually eventuate as the real baronite." There was time for no more, and Saunders proceeded to summon the delinquent.
As he lay down on the hard bench, he comforted himself with thinking that Ruby would surely never care any more for the 'baronite' since she had seen him go down like a cur without striking a blow. He thought a good deal about Ruby, but never attributed any blame to her for her share in the evils that had befallen him.
'By the mortials I'll baronite him; I wull, said John, seizing his hat and stalking off through the back kitchen after his friend. The next day there was a great surprise at Sheep's Acre farm, which communicated itself to the towns of Bungay and Beccles, and even affected the ordinary quiet life of Carbury Manor.
'He's a coosin o' yours, squoire; and long as I've known Suffolk, I've never known nothing but good o' you and yourn. But if your baronite has been and done this! Oh, Mr Carbury! If I was to wring his neck round, you wouldn't say as how I was wrong; would ye, now? Roger could hardly answer the question.
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