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Updated: June 8, 2025
He walked all round Darvell's premises, the desolate, half-ruined house of Brumbys, telling himself that very shortly it should be desolate and half-ruined no longer.
It's Walker's work, at the other side, that shames him." "One can't have Walkers on every farm," said the Squire. "No; if things go, as I think they will go, we'll pull down every stick and stone at Brumby's," Brumby's was the name of Darvell's farm, "and put it up all ship-shape. The house hasn't been touched these twenty years." Ralph said nothing.
And do you know, I love the place so much better than I did, that I can hardly bear to tear myself away from it. The first mark of my handiwork, now that I can work, shall be put upon Darvell's farm. I'll have the old place about his ears before I am a day older." "You'll not get it through before winter." "Yes, I will. If it costs me an extra £50 I shan't begrudge it.
Jack Gunn's donkey looked over the hedge, his furry ears showing a pointed interest in the affair, and in the distance the vicar surveyed the scene from the cottage door, still holding Mrs Darvell's pattens. So Frank had got home again; and after all his wanderings he found that: "From east to west At home is best."
Mrs Darvell's black eyes fixed themselves keenly on the vicar's face. "You've heard summat, sir?" she said, laying one damp red hand on his coat-sleeve. "Is the lad livin'? Just tell me that. Is he livin'?" "Look there," said the vicar. He turned and pointed down the road, where, at the top of the hill leading up from Danecross, two figures were just visible. They came nearer and nearer.
"I suppose we shall come back this way," Crosbie said, as they prepared to move away on their proper business when lunch was over. "Well, not exactly!" said Bernard. "We shall make our way round by Darvell's farm, and so back by Gruddock's. Are the girls going to dine up at the Great House to-day?"
How was it that he was base enough to think of them while the accident, which had robbed him of his father, was so recent? As the dusk grew on, he emerged out of the copse into the park, and, crossing at the back of the home paddocks, came out upon the road near to Darvell's farm. He passed a few yards up the lane, till at a turn he could discern the dismantled house.
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