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Upon my word she is," said Cheesacre, getting very angry and very red. "Charlie Fairstairs, indeed! I wouldn't pick her out of a gutter with a pair of tongs. She ain't good enough for my bailiff, let alone me." "But somebody must take her in hand on Saturday, if you're to do any good," said the crafty Bellfield.
Captain Bellfield, lest there should be any misconception, I must beg you to understand that the position in which you found Mr Cheesacre was one altogether of his own seeking. It was not with my consent that he was there." "I can easily believe that, Mrs Greenow," said the Captain. "Who cares what you believe, sir?" said Mr Cheesacre. "Gentlemen! gentlemen! this is really unkind.
When they got to the door both Cheesacre and the captain made an attempt to get possession of the widow's arm. But she had it all arranged. Captain Bellfield found himself constrained to attend to Mrs Green, while Mr Cheesacre walked down to the beach beside Kate Vavasor. "I'll take your arm, Mr Joe," said the widow, "and the girls shall come with us."
Digges was the son of Sir Dudley Digges, Master of the Rolls under Charles I. He came to Virginia sometime before 1650 and bought a plantation on the York River, subsequently known as "Bellfield." The plantation become famous for the quality of the tobacco grown there, and was also the scene of Digges's efforts at silk production, in the culture of which he employed three Armenians.
But at that moment there came a knock at the door, and Jeannette, entering the room, told her mistress that Captain Bellfield was below and wanted to know whether he could see her for a minute on particular business. "Show Captain Bellfield up, certainly," said Mrs Greenow. "D Captain Bellfield!" said Mr Cheesacre. Alice Is Taught to Grow Upwards, Towards the Light
Sheriff's officers can be paid, and there's an end of them." "I'll indict him for the libel I will, as sure as I'm alive," said Bellfield. "Nonsense," said the widow. "Don't you make a fool of yourself. When men can't pay their way they must put up with having things like that said of them. Mr Cheesacre, where were you going?" "I was going to Vavasor Hall, on purpose to caution you."
"Bellfield, don't mind about the hampers," said Cheesacre. "Wine is a ticklish thing to handle, and there's my man there to manage it." "It's odd if I don't know more about wine than the boots from the hotel," said Bellfield. This allusion to the boots almost cowed Mr Cheesacre, and made him turn away, leaving Bellfield with the widow.
Bellfield touched his cap with an eager and willing hand, as new chauffeurs will. "Want the car, sir?... Setting in for a wet night!" "No, thanks." It was a lie. He did want the car. He wanted the car so that he might ride right away into a new and more interesting world, or at any rate into Hanbridge, centre of the pleasures, the wickedness and the commerce of the Five Towns.
Kate boldly knocked at her aunt's door, and her aunt received her with a conscious smile. "I was waiting for you to come," said Mrs Greenow. "Here I am, aunt; and, what is more to the purpose, there is Captain Bellfield in the drawing-room." "Stupid man! I told him to take himself away about the place till dinner-time. I've half a mind to send him back to Shap at once; upon my word I have."
He could, however, not keep himself from hinting that Oileymead was a substantial home, and that Bellfield had not as much as a straw mattress to lie upon. In answer to this Mrs Greenow told him that there was so much more reason why some one should provide the poor man with a mattress. "If you look at it in that light, of course it's true," said Cheesacre.
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