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Then, after a pause: "How long is he staying at Mellor?" "About a week, I believe," said Aldous, shortly. "Mr. Boyce has taken a fancy to him." They walked on in silence, and then Aldous turned to his friend in distress. "You know, Hallin, this wind is much too cold for you. You are the most wilful of men. Why would you walk?" "Hold your tongue, sir, and listen to me.
Now then, you take these and go t' other side." He handed over a bundle of rabbit nets. Patton, crawling on hands and knees, climbed over the low overgrown bank on which the hedge stood into the precincts of the wood itself. The state of the hedge, leaving the cover practically open and defenceless along its whole boundary, showed plainly enough that it belonged to the Mellor estate.
He and her mother had originally sent their daughter away from home that they might avoid the daily worry of her awakening curiosities, and one of his resolutions in coming to Mellor Park had been to keep up his dignity with her. But the sight of her dark face bent upon him, softened by a quick and womanly compassion, seemed to set free a new impulse in him.
And so in hospital; it would flash across me sometimes in a plaintive sort of way that they couldn't know that I was Miss Boyce of Mellor, and had been mothering and ruling the whole of my father's village or they wouldn't treat me so. Mercifully I held my tongue. But one day it came to a crisis. I had had to get things ready for an operation, and had done very well. Dr.
And Marcella could not get over the astonishment of Wharton's part in it. She shut her eyes sometimes for an instant and tried to see him as her girl's fancy had seen him at Mellor the solitary, eccentric figure pursued by the hatreds of a renounced Patricianate bringing the enmity of his own order as a pledge and offering to the Plebs he asked to lead. Where even was the speaker of an hour ago?
Miss Mellor, with a quite pardonable air of tolerant superiority, refers to his wife as 'a strange, timid little creature she couldn't say Bo to a goose. This is a scandalous story. It scandalized the best people in Bursley; some of them would wish it forgotten. But since I have begun to tell it I may as well finish.
Chamberlain got up to base an attack on Mr. Mellor for this judgment. There was a delighted howl from the young Tory bloods who had been obstructing so shamelessly throughout the evening. Mr. Chamberlain's example was followed by Mr. Balfour, by Sir John Gorst in short, the whole Tory and Unionist pack were in full cry after the Chairman.
I knew then that all was over for me at Mellor. "As for the wretched break-down of everything of all my schemes and friendships here I had better not speak of it. I feel that I have given these village-folk, whom I had promised to help, one more reason to despair of life. It is not pleasant to carry such a thought away with one. But if the tool breaks and blunts, how can the task be done?
This man needy, shrewd, and well equipped with local knowledge had done work for Wharton and the party, and asked nothing better than to stand well with the future member for the division. "There is a lady," Wharton had said, "the daughter of Mr. Boyce of Mellor, who is already very much interested in this fellow and his family. She takes this business greatly to heart.
But he noticed nothing, and even the sensation of his triumph was passing off. He was once more in the Mellor drive; Aldous Raeburn and Marcella stood in front of him; the thrill of the moment beat once more in his pulse. He buried his head in his hands and thought. The news of the murder had reached him from Mr. Boyce.
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