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As far as I can make out, the fight is going to take place in another week or two. All the same, it makes my flesh creep. Well, it's no use worrying, I suppose. Let's change the subject. Do you know Monk's Crofton? Probably you don't, as I seem to remember hearing something said about it being a recent purchase. Mr.
When the train arrived at Crofton, the carriage was waiting for the travellers, in charge of the hired man, and they were soon driving along the familiar road to the homestead. "What is the matter at home, Joe?" said Mr. Sherwood. "Are all well?"
So this was the guest whom she had ventured to ask down to the hospitality of the shabby old village manse! If she had been a princess, Miss Jeannette Crofton could not more thoroughly have looked the part.
For the first time in his self-confident, comfortable, young life Jack Tosswill was in love and full of painful, poignant, retrospective jealousy. Radmore looked away, instinctively. "I liked Colonel Crofton, I always got on with him but he was not popular. He was not at all happy when I knew him, and unhappy people are rarely popular."
It was as if he were speaking to her in a foreign language, and yet his words made her feel vaguely apprehensive. Surely Timmy could not divine the hidden thoughts of the people about him? She grew hot with dismay at the idea. The doctor bent forward, and looked at her keenly: "I should like to ask you another question, Mrs. Crofton.
They were no wiser when Hugh repeated what he had said; nor could the coachman enlighten them. He only knew that he was to put the boy down at Shaw's, the great miller's, near thirty miles along the road. "Eight-and-twenty," said Hugh, in correction; "and Crofton is two miles from my uncle's." "Eight-and-twenty. The father's joke lies there," observed the right-hand man.
Piper began to doubt very much whether she had acted for the best in being so honest "honest" was the word she used to herself. But she told herself that now she had started, perhaps she had better go straight on with it. "It's my belief that Piper did ask Mrs. Crofton to speak to you, sir, about the matter, and I thought, maybe, that she 'ad done so.
It was during her brief engagement to Colonel Crofton, and the latter's sister, without being over cordial, had been quite pleasant to the startlingly pretty little woman, who had made such a fool of her brother. But at the time of Colonel Crofton's death, his sister had been truly kind.
"But I haven't danced for more than a year, and I don't know one of the latest steps," she said regretfully. "We'll soon remedy that," promised Chester Crofton, her cousin, who carried her off into an unoccupied room, where the music could yet be heard, and proceeded to teach her.
There's something I want to ask you." Unwillingly he obeyed. "I think you knew Colonel Crofton?" "Yes, and I liked him very much." "I'm afraid from what I've heard that she wasn't a particularly good wife to him." Radmore was surprised at the feeling in her voice, but he asked himself irritably how the devil had Miss Pendarth heard anything of the Croftons and their private affairs?
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