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"Yes," said Wisbech, "I heard, and it seems to me Derrick's right in one respect. Though I don't know how far it accounts for the other fact he has just impressed on you, Miss Waynefleet certainly possesses a considerable amount of sense. She is also a young lady I have a high opinion of. Still, if he had gone back to the Bush merely because you insisted on it, I think I should have cast him off."
Wisbech told him, and added that there were many things he would like to talk about, whereupon Nasmyth smiled in a deprecatory manner. "I'm afraid you'll have to wait an hour or two," he said. "You see, there are several more big logs ready for hauling down, and I have to keep the boys supplied. I'll be at liberty after supper, and you can't get back to-night.
As they approached the level at the foot of the slope, the man who drove them ran back, and slipping his handspike under it, swung the butt of the log round an obstacle. Wisbech gazed at his nephew with astonishment when Nasmyth came up with the beasts again.
I purpose to take a share in your venture, and I'm offering you an opportunity of making sure which is the kind of life you're most fitted for." "I guess you ought to go," remarked Gordon quietly. Nasmyth smiled. "That," he agreed, "is my own opinion." "Then we'll consider it as decided," said Wisbech.
His friendship with the family of the Earl of Wisbech had remained unaltered, and he had every year paid them a visit, either at Wisbech or at Sevenoaks. A year after Mr. Harvey's death, he married Dorothy, who had previously refused several flattering offers. Captain Dave and his wife lived to a good old age.
They look to me to put the thing through; so that they may get their money back again." "Is there no one else who could do that?" Acton asked. "It seems to me there's nothing wrong with that man Gordon. I guess you could leave it to him." Nasmyth felt that Wisbech was watching him with a curious intentness. "Gordon," he answered slowly, "is at least as well fitted to lead the boys as I am.
Wisbech had never seen cattle of any kind progress in that fashion before, but he naturally did not know that the Bush-bred ox can travel at a headlong pace up and down hills and amidst thickets a man would cautiously climb or painfully crawl through.
Wisbech had brought him a letter from a person of consequence, and he had offered the Englishman and his nephew the freedom of his house.
"I believe it is, though they are going to make paper stock, too." "Well," pursued Wisbech; "it may meet the requirements of the country, but it is a very crude and inartistic production. I may say that it is my business to make enamelled ware. The Wisbech bowls and cups and basins are justly celebrated light and dainty, and turned out to resemble marble, granite, or the most artistic china.
The days pass, then, in a delightful monotony; one reads, writes, sits or paces in the garden, scours the country on still sunny afternoons. There are many grand churches and houses within a reasonable distance, such as the great churches near Wisbech and Lynn West Walton, Walpole St. Peter, Tilney, Terrington St.
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