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Speaker 1: Chapter thirty of Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell. This
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Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain, Chapter thirty Old
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Speaker 1: Ways and New Ways. Mister Preston was now installed in
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Speaker 1: his new house at Hollingford, Mister Sheepshanks, having entered into
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Speaker 1: dignified idleness at the house of his married daughter who
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Speaker 1: lived in the county town. His successor had plunged with
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Speaker 1: energy into all manner of improvements, and among others, he
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Speaker 1: fell to draining a piece of outlying waste and unreclaimed
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Speaker 1: land of Lord Cumnor's, which was close to Squire Hamley's property,
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Speaker 1: that very peace for which he had had the government grant,
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Speaker 1: but which now lay neglected and only half trained, with
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Speaker 1: stacks of mossy tiles and lines of upturned furrows telling
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Speaker 1: of abortive plans. It was not often that the Squire
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Speaker 1: rode in this direction nowadays, but the cottage of a
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Speaker 1: man who had been the Squire's gamekeeper in those more
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Speaker 1: prosperous days when the Hamleys could afford to preserve, was
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Speaker 1: close to the rush grown grows. This old servant and
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Speaker 1: tenant was ill, and had sent a message up to
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Speaker 1: the hall asking to see the squire not to reveal
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Speaker 1: any secret, or to say anything particular, but only from
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Speaker 1: the feudal loyalty, which made it seem to the dying
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Speaker 1: man as if it would be a comfort to shake
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Speaker 1: the hand and look once more into the eyes of
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Speaker 1: the lord and master whom he had served, and whose
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Speaker 1: ancestors his own forbears had served for so many generations.
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Speaker 1: And the squire was as fully alive as old Silas
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Speaker 1: to the claims of the tie that existed between them,
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Speaker 1: though he hated the thought, and still more should hate
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Speaker 1: the sight of the peace of land on the side
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Speaker 1: of which Silas's cottage stood. The squire ordered his horse
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Speaker 1: and rode off within half an hour of receiving the message.
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Speaker 1: As he drew near the spot, he thought he heard
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Speaker 1: the sound of tools and the hum of many voices,
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Speaker 1: just as he used to hear them a year or
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Speaker 1: two before. He listened with surprise.
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Speaker 2: Yes, instead of the still solitude he had expected, there
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Speaker 2: was the clink of iron, the heavy gradual thud of
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Speaker 2: the fall of barrels full of soil, the cry and
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Speaker 2: shout of labors. But not on his land. Better worth
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Speaker 2: expense and trouble by far than the reedy clay common
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Speaker 2: on which the men were in fact employed.
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Speaker 1: He knew it was Lord Cumnor's property, and he knew
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Speaker 1: Lord Cumnor and his family had gone up in the world.
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Speaker 2: The Whig rascals, both.
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Speaker 1: In wealth and in station, as the Hamleys had gone down.
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Speaker 1: But all the same, in spite of long known facts
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Speaker 1: and in spite of reason, the squire's ready anger rose
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Speaker 1: high at the sight of his neighbor doing what he
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Speaker 1: had been unable to do. And he a Whig and
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Speaker 1: his family only in the county since Queen Anne's time.
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Speaker 1: He went so far as to wonder whether they might
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Speaker 1: not the laborers he meant avail themselves of his tiles,
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Speaker 1: lying so conveniently close to hand. All these thoughts, regrets,
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Speaker 1: and wonders were in his mind as he rode up
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Speaker 1: to the cottage he was bound to and gave his
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Speaker 1: horse in charge to a little lad who had hitherto
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Speaker 1: found his morning's business and amusement in playing at houses
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Speaker 1: with a still younger sister with some of the squire's
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Speaker 1: neglected tiles. But he was Old Silas's grandson, and he
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Speaker 1: might have battered the rude red earthenware to pieces a
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Speaker 1: whole stack, one by one, and the Squire would have
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Speaker 1: said little or nothing. It was only that he would
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Speaker 1: not spare one to a laborer of Lord Cumnor's, No,
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Speaker 1: not one. Old Silas lay in a sort of closet
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Speaker 1: opening out of the family living room. The small window
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Speaker 1: that gave it light looked right on to the moor,
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Speaker 1: as it was called, and by day the check curtain
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Speaker 1: was drawn aside so that he might watch the progress
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Speaker 1: of the labor Everything about the old man was clean,
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Speaker 1: if coarse, and with death the leveler so close at hand.
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Speaker 1: It was the laborer who made the first advances and
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Speaker 1: put out his horny hand to the Squire.
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Speaker 3: I thought he'd come, Squire, your father came for a
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Speaker 3: see mine, father, as he lay a dying.
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Speaker 1: Come come, my man, said the Squire, easily affected as
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Speaker 1: he always was.
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Speaker 2: Don't talk of dying. We shall soon have you out.
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Speaker 2: Never fear. They've sent you up some soup from the
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Speaker 2: hall as I made them, haven't they.
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Speaker 3: I I've had all as I could want for to
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Speaker 3: eat and a drink. The young squire, and Master Roger
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Speaker 3: was here yesterday, Yes I know, but I'm a deal
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Speaker 3: nearer to heaven today. I am, I should like you
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Speaker 3: to look after the covers in the west. Spinney's squire
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Speaker 3: them gorse, you know where the old fox had her hole.
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Speaker 3: Her has given them so many a run. You'll mind it. Squire,
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Speaker 3: Though you was but a lad, I could laugh to
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Speaker 3: think on her tricks.
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Speaker 1: Yet, and with a weak attempt at die laugh, he
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Speaker 1: got himself into a violent fit of coughing, which alarmed
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Speaker 1: the squire, who thought he would never get his breath again.
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Speaker 1: His daughter in law came in at the sound and
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Speaker 1: told the squire that he had these coughing bouts very frequently,
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Speaker 1: and that she thought he would go off in one
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Speaker 1: of them before long. This opinion of hers was spoken
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Speaker 1: simply out before the old man, who now lay gasping
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Speaker 1: and exhausted upon his pillow. Poor people acknowledged the inevitableness
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Speaker 1: and the approach of death in a much more straightforward
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Speaker 1: manner than his customary among more educated folk. The squire
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Speaker 1: was shocked at her hard heartedness as he considered it.
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Speaker 1: But the old man himself had received much tender kindness
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Speaker 1: from his daughter in law, and what she had just
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Speaker 1: said was no more news to him than the fact
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Speaker 1: that the sun would rise to morrow. He was more
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Speaker 1: anxious to go on with his story then navvies.
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Speaker 3: I call em navvies, cause some of em is strangers,
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Speaker 3: though some of em as the manners was turned off
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Speaker 3: your own works when there came order is to stop
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Speaker 3: them last fall. They're a pulling up gorse and brush
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Speaker 3: to light their fire for warning, up their messes. It's
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Speaker 3: a long way off to their homes, and they mostly
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Speaker 3: dine here, and there'll be nothing of a cover left
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Speaker 3: if you don't see after them. I thought I should
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Speaker 3: like to tell you before I died, Parsons been here.
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Speaker 3: Why didn't I tell him? He's all for the Earl's folk,
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Speaker 3: and he'd not aided. It's the Earl has put him
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Speaker 3: into his church. I reckon, for he said what a
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Speaker 3: fine thing it were, for it sees so much employment
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Speaker 3: given to the poor. And he never said, not the
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Speaker 3: sort when your works were a gates square.
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Speaker 1: This long speech had been interrupted by many a cough
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Speaker 1: and gasp for breath, and having delivered himself of what
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Speaker 1: was on his mind, he turned his face to the
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Speaker 1: wall and appeared to be going to sleep. Presently, he
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Speaker 1: roused himself with a start.
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Speaker 3: I know I flogged him. Well, I did, but he
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Speaker 3: were after pheasants ekes, and I didn't know he were
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Speaker 3: an orphan. Lord, forgive me.
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Speaker 4: He's thinkin on David Morton, the cripple has used to
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Speaker 4: go about chappin' vermin.
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Speaker 1: Whispered the woman.
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Speaker 2: Why he died long ago, told you you, I should.
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Speaker 1: Think, replied the squire.
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Speaker 4: Aye, but when grandfather goes off it this way to
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Speaker 4: sleep after about talkin', he seems to be dreamin' on
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Speaker 4: old times. He'll not waken up yet. Sir, you'd better
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Speaker 4: sit down if you'd like to stay.
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Speaker 1: She continued, as she went into the house place and
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Speaker 1: dusted a chair with her apron.
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Speaker 4: He was very particular in bidding me to wake him
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Speaker 4: if he were asleep, and you are mister Roger was
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Speaker 4: to call. Mister Roger said he be coming again this morning,
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Speaker 4: but he'll likely to sleep an hour or more if
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Speaker 4: he's let alone.
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Speaker 2: I'd wish i'd said good bye. I should have liked
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Speaker 2: to have done that.
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Speaker 1: He drops off so sudden, said the woman.
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Speaker 4: But if ye'd be better pleased to have said it square,
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Speaker 4: I'll waken him up a bit.
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Speaker 1: No, no, the squire called out, as the woman was
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Speaker 1: going to be as good as her word.
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Speaker 2: I'll come again, perhaps to morrow, and tell him I
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Speaker 2: was sorry, for I am indeed, and be sure and
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Speaker 2: send to the hall for anything you want. Mister Roger
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Speaker 2: is coming, is he? He'll bring the word how he
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Speaker 2: is later on I should have liked to have bidden him.
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Speaker 1: Good Bye, sir. Giving sixpence to the child who had
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Speaker 1: held his horse, the squire mounted. He sat still a moment,
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Speaker 1: looking at the busy work going on before him, and
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Speaker 1: then at his own half completed drainage. It was a
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Speaker 1: bitter pill. He had objected to borrowing from the government
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Speaker 1: in the first instance, and then his wife had persuaded
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Speaker 1: him to the step, And after it was once taken,
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Speaker 1: he was as proud as could be of the only
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Speaker 1: concession to the spirit of progress he had ever made
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Speaker 1: in his life. He had read and studied the subject
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Speaker 1: pretty thoroughly, if also very slowly, during the time his
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Speaker 1: wife had been influencing him. He was tolerably well up
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Speaker 1: in agriculture, if in nothing else, and at one time
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Speaker 1: he had taken the lead among the neighboring landowners when
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Speaker 1: he first began the tile drainage. In those days, people
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Speaker 1: used to speak of Squire Hamley's hobby, and at market
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Speaker 1: ordinaries or county dinners, they rather dreaded, setting him off
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Speaker 1: on long repetitions of arguments from the different pamphlets on
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Speaker 1: the subject which he had read. And now the proprietors
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Speaker 1: all around him were draining, draining. His interest to the
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Speaker 1: government was running on all the same though his works
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Speaker 1: were stopped and his tiles deteriorating in value. It was
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Speaker 1: not a soothing consideration, and the Squire was almost ready
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Speaker 1: to quarrel with his shadow. He wanted a vent for
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Speaker 1: his ill humor, and, suddenly, remembering the devastations on his
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Speaker 1: covers which he had heard about not a quarter of
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Speaker 1: an hour before, he rode towards the men busy at
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Speaker 1: work on Lord Cumnor's land. Just before he got up
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Speaker 1: to them, he encountered mister Preston, also on horseback, come
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Speaker 1: to overlook his laborers. The Squire did not know him personally,
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Speaker 1: but from the agent's manner of speaking and the deference
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Speaker 1: that was evidently paid to him, mister Hamley saw that
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Speaker 1: he was a responsible person.
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Speaker 2: So he addressed the agent, I beg your pardon. I
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Speaker 2: suppose you are the manager of these works mister Preston.
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Speaker 5: Replied, certainly, I am that and many other things. Besides,
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Speaker 5: at your service, I have succeeded mister Sheepshanks in the
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Speaker 5: management of my lord's property. Mister Hamley of Hamley, I believe.
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Speaker 1: The Squire bowed stiffly. He did not like his name
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Speaker 1: to be asked or presumed upon in that manner. An
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Speaker 1: equal might conjecture who he was or recognize him, but
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Speaker 1: till he announced himself, and inferior had no right to
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Speaker 1: do more than address him respectfully as sir. That was
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Speaker 1: the squire's code of etiquette.
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Speaker 2: I am, mister Hamley of Hamley. I suppose you are
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Speaker 2: as yet ignorant of the boundary of Lord Cumnor's land,
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Speaker 2: and so I will inform you that my property begins
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Speaker 2: at the bond yonder, just where you see the rise
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Speaker 2: in the ground.
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Speaker 5: I am perfectly acquainted with that fact, mister Hamley.
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Speaker 1: Said mister Preston, a little annoyed at the ignorance attributed
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Speaker 1: to him.
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Speaker 5: But may I inquire why my attention is called to it?
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Speaker 5: Just now?
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Speaker 1: The Squire was beginning to boil over, but he tried
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Speaker 1: to keep his temper in the effort was very much
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Speaker 1: to be respected, for it was a great one. There
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Speaker 1: was something in the handsome and well dressed agent's tone
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Speaker 1: and manner inexpressibly irritating to the Squire, and it was
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Speaker 1: not lessened by an involuntary comparison of the capital roadster
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Speaker 1: on which mister Preston was mounted with his own, ill
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Speaker 1: groomed and aged cob.
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Speaker 2: I have been told that your men out yonder do
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Speaker 2: not respect these boundary, but are in the habit of
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Speaker 2: plucking up a gorse from my covers to light the fires.
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Speaker 5: It is possible they may.
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Speaker 1: Said mister Preston, lifting his eyebrows, his manner being more
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Speaker 1: nonchalant than his words.
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Speaker 5: I dare say they think no great harm of it. However,
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Speaker 5: I'll inquire.
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Speaker 2: Do you doubt my.
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Speaker 1: Word, sir, said the Squire, fretting his mare till she
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Speaker 1: began to dance about.
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Speaker 2: I tell you I've heard it only within this last
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Speaker 2: half hour.
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Speaker 5: I don't mean to doubt your word, mister Hamley. It's
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Speaker 5: the last thing I should think of doing. But you
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Speaker 5: must excuse my saying that the argument which you have
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Speaker 5: twice brought up for the authenticity of your statement that
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Speaker 5: you have heard it within the last half hour is
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Speaker 5: not quite so forcible as to preclude the possibility of
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Speaker 5: a mistake.
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Speaker 2: I'd wish you'd only say in plain language that you
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Speaker 2: doubt my.
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Speaker 1: Word, said the squire, clinching and slightly raising his horsewhip.
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Speaker 2: I can't make out what you mean. You use so
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Speaker 2: many words.
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Speaker 5: Pray, don't lose your temper, sir, I, he said, I
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Speaker 5: should inquire. You have not seen the men pulling up
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Speaker 5: gorsh yourself, or you would have named it. I surely
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Speaker 5: may doubt the correctness of your information until I have
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Speaker 5: made some inquiry. At any rate, that is the course
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Speaker 5: I shall pursue, and if it gives you offense, I
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Speaker 5: shall be sorry, but I shall do it just the same.
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Speaker 5: When I am convinced that harm has been done to
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Speaker 5: your property, I shall take steps to prevent it for
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Speaker 5: the future, and of course, in my Lord's name, I
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Speaker 5: shall pay you compensation. It may probably amount to half
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Speaker 5: a crown.
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Speaker 1: He added these last words in a lower tone, as
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Speaker 1: if to himself, with a slight contemptuous smile on his face.
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Speaker 2: Quiet Mare, Quiet, said.
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Speaker 1: The squire, totally unaware that he was the cause of
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Speaker 1: her impatient movements. By the way, he was perpetually tightening
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Speaker 1: her reins, and also perhaps he unconsciously addressed the injunction
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Speaker 1: to himself. Neither of them saw Roger Hamley, who was
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Speaker 1: just then approaching them with long, steady steps. He had
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Speaker 1: seen his father from the door of Old Silas's cottage,
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Speaker 1: and as the poor fellow was still asleep, he was
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Speaker 1: coming to speak to his father, and was near enough
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Speaker 1: now to hear the next words.
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Speaker 2: I don't know who you are, but I've known land
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Speaker 2: agents who were gentlemen, and i've known some who were not.
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Speaker 2: You belong to this last.
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Speaker 1: Set, young man, said the squire that you do.
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Speaker 2: I should like to try my horse whip on you
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Speaker 2: for your insolence, pray, mister Hamley.
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Speaker 1: Replied, mister Preston, coolly.
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Speaker 5: Curb your temper a little and reflect. I really feel
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Speaker 5: sorry to see a man of your age in such
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Speaker 5: a passion.
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Speaker 1: Moving a little further off, however, but really more with
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Speaker 1: a desire to save the irritated man from carrying his
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Speaker 1: threat into execution, out of dislike to the slander and
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Speaker 1: excitement it would cause, than from any personal dread. Just
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Speaker 1: at this moment Roger Hamley came close up. He was
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Speaker 1: panting a little, and his eyes were very stern and dark,
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Speaker 1: But he spoke quietly enough.
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Speaker 6: Mister Preston, I can hardly understand what you mean by
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Speaker 6: your last words. But remember, my father is a gentleman
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Speaker 6: of age jan position, had not accustomed to receive advice
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Speaker 6: as to the management of his temper from young men
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Speaker 6: like you.
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Speaker 2: I desired him to keep his men off my land, said.
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Speaker 1: The squire to his son, his wish to stand well,
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Speaker 1: in Roger's opinion, restraining his temper a little. But though
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Speaker 1: his words might be a little calmer, there were all
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Speaker 1: the other signs of passion present, the discolored complexion, the
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Speaker 1: trembling hands, the fiery cloud in his eyes.
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Speaker 2: He refused and doubted my word.
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Speaker 1: Mister Preston turned to Roger, as if appealing from Philip
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Speaker 1: drunk to Philip sober, and spoke in a tone of
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Speaker 1: cool explanation, which, though not insolent in words, was excessively
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Speaker 1: irritating in manner.
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Speaker 5: Your father has misunderstood me. Perhaps it is no wonder trying.
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Speaker 1: To convey, by a look of intelligence at the son,
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Speaker 1: his opinion that the father was in no state to
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Speaker 1: hear reason.
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Speaker 5: I never refused to do what was just and right.
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Speaker 5: I only required further evidence as to the past wrongdoing.
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Speaker 5: Your father took offense at this, and.
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Speaker 1: Then he shrugged his shoulders and lifted his eyebrows in
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Speaker 1: a manner he had formerly learned in France.
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Speaker 6: At any rate, Sir, I can scarcely reconcile the manner
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Speaker 6: and words to my father which I heard you use
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Speaker 6: when I first came up with the deference you ought
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Speaker 6: to have shown to a man of his age and
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Speaker 6: position as to the fact of the trespass.
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Speaker 2: They are pulling up all the gorse, Roger, there'll be
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Speaker 2: no cover whatever for game.
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Speaker 1: Soon put in the squire. Roger bowed to his father,
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Speaker 1: but took up his speech at the point it was
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Speaker 1: at before the interruption.
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Speaker 6: I will inquire into it myself at a cooler moment,
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Speaker 6: and if I find that such trespass or damage has
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Speaker 6: been committed, of course I shall expect that you will see.
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Speaker 6: Yet put a stop to come, father, I am going
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Speaker 6: to see old Silas. Perhaps you don't know that he
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Speaker 6: is very ill.
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Speaker 1: So he endeavored to while the squire away to prevent
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Speaker 1: further words. He was not entirely successful. Mister Preston was
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Speaker 1: enraged by Roger's calm, dignified manner, and threw after them
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Speaker 1: this parting shaft in the shape of a loud soliloquy position.
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Speaker 5: Indeed, what are we to think of the position of
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Speaker 5: a man who begins works like these without counting the cost,
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Speaker 5: and comes to a standstill and has to turn off
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Speaker 5: his laborers just at the beginning of winter, leaving.
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Speaker 1: They were too far off to hear the rest. The
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Speaker 1: squire was on the point of turning back before this,
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Speaker 1: but Roger took hold of the reins of the old
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Speaker 1: mare and led her over some of the boggy ground,
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Speaker 1: as if to guide her into shore footing, but in reality,
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Speaker 1: because he was determined to prevent the renewal of the quarrel.
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Speaker 1: It was well that the cob knew him, and was
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Speaker 1: indeed old enough to prefer quietness to dancing. For mister
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Speaker 1: Hamley plucked hard at the reins and at last broke
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Speaker 1: out with an oath.
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Speaker 2: Damn it, Roger, I'm not a child. I won't be
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Speaker 2: treated as such. Leave go, I say, Roger.
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Speaker 1: Let go. They were now on firm ground, and he
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Speaker 1: did not wish any watchers to think that he was
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Speaker 1: exercising any constraint over his father, and this quiet obedience
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Speaker 1: to his impatient commands did more to suit the Squire
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Speaker 1: than anything else could have effected.
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Speaker 2: Just then, I know I turned him off. What could
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Speaker 2: I do? I'd no more money for their weekly wages.
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Speaker 2: It's a loss to me, as you know. He doesn't know.
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Speaker 2: No one knows, but I think your mother would. How
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Speaker 2: it cut me to turn him off just before winter
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Speaker 2: set in. I lay awake many a night thinking of it,
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Speaker 2: and I gave them what I had I did, Indeed,
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Speaker 2: I hadn't got money to pay him, but I had
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Speaker 2: three barren cows fattened and gave every scrap of meat
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Speaker 2: to the men. And I let him go into the
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Speaker 2: woods and gather what was fallen. And I winked at
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Speaker 2: their breaking off ault branches. And now to have it
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Speaker 2: cast up against me by that cur that servant. But
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Speaker 2: I'll go on with the works by will, if only
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Speaker 2: to spite him. I'll show him who I am my position. Indeed,
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Speaker 2: a hamley of family takes a higher position than his master.
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Speaker 2: I'll go on with the works. See if I don't,
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Speaker 2: I'm paying between one and two hundred a year interest
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Speaker 2: on government money. I'll raise some more if I go
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Speaker 2: to the Jews. Osborne has shown me the way, and
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Speaker 2: Osborne shall pay for it. He shall. I'll not put
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Speaker 2: up with insults. You shouldn't have stopped me, Roger, I
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Speaker 2: wish to have a night horse, wept the fellow.
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Speaker 1: He was lashing himself again into an impotent rage, painful
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Speaker 1: to a son to witness. But just then the little
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Speaker 1: grandchild of old Silas, who had held the squire's horse
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Speaker 1: during his visit to the sick man, came running up, breathless.
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Speaker 7: Please, sir, please, cuire. Mammy has sent me. Grandfather has
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Speaker 7: wakened up son, and Mammy says he's dying, and will
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Speaker 7: you please come. She said he'd take it as a
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Speaker 7: kind compliment.
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Speaker 1: She is sure. So they went to the cottage, the
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Speaker 1: squire never speaking a word, but suddenly feeling as if
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Speaker 1: lifted out of a whirlwind, and sat down in a
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Speaker 1: still and awful place. End of Chapter thirty