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Updated: June 28, 2025
She had proved herself, too, a generous soul frankly owning herself in the wrong and trying by every means to make atonement.... Few women would have been at once so frank and so practical in their repentance. That he suspected the repentance was largely for his sake did not diminish his respect of it. When he met Joanna Godden again, he would be nice to her.
It was not thus that Ellen Godden understood love.
Martin, you've never met Miss Godden. Let me introduce you." Joanna's welcoming grin broke itself on the young man's stiff bow. There was a moment's silence. "He doesn't look as if a London doctor had threatened him with consumption," said the Squire banteringly. "Sometimes I really don't, think I believe it I think he's only come down here so as he can look after me."
Joanna watched her rather anxiously. She tried to persuade herself that Ellen was happy and no longer craved for the alien soil from which she had been uprooted. But there was no denying her own disappointment. A lady was not the wonderful being Joanna Godden had always imagined.
You'll bring down my grey hairs in sorrow to the grave, but I am all beautiful resignation. Indeed I think I shall offer myself as best man, and flirt dutifully with Ellen Godden, who I suppose will be chief bridesmaid. Your brother shall himself perform the ceremony. What could your family do more?" "What indeed?" laughed Martin.
"Hard-earned money 'tis blood out of a stone to draw wages from my master. Better it should light in my belly than in a rogue's pocket. 'Tis as well for me that John o' th' Swift-foot swings at the cross-roads. Godden, my masters!" And leading his weary beast, he took the road that skirted the forest.
He took her round the farms, not only in her own neighbourhood, but those near Donkey Street, over on Romney Marsh, across the Rhee Wall. In her honour he bought a new trap, and Ellen drove beside him in it, sitting very demure and straight. People said "There goes Ellen Godden, who's marrying her sister's young man," and sometimes Ellen heard them.
On her way she met the farmer of Picknye Bush. "Good day, Miss Godden I've just come from buying some tegs of yourn." "My looker's settled with you, has he?" "He said he had the power to sell as he thought proper otherways I was going to ask for you." An angry flush drowned the freckles on Joanna's cheek. "That's Fuller, the obstinate, thick-headed old man...." Bates's round face fell a little.
The younger, Martin, who had some definite job in the city, was home for a few days that October. It was to him his father said: "I can't help admiring that girl Joanna Godden for her pluck. Old Godden died suddenly two weeks ago, and now she's given out that she'll run the farm herself, instead of putting in a bailiff.
There was a strange air of unsubstantiality about it the earth was not the solid earth, the watercourses were moonlight rather than water, the light was water rather than light, the trees were shadows.... "Ah-h-h," said Joanna Godden.
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