gone away for a time gone away when was you then the day you said yes tuesday mother and now tis on y saturday and he gone away yes he s gone what s the meaning o that nation seize such as you seem to get say it mother went across to laid her face upon the matron s bosom and burst into i don t know how to tell ee mother you said to me and wrote to me that i was not to tell mm but i did tell him � i couldn t help it � and he went away o you little fool � you little fool burst out mrs and herself in her agitation my good god that ever i should ha to say it but i say it again you little fool was with weeping the of so many days having relaxed at last i it � i know � i know she gasped through her sobs but o my mother i could not help it he was so good � and i felt the wickedness of trying to blind him as to what had happened if � it were to be done again � i should do the i could not � i dared not � so sin � against him but you enough to marry him first yes yes that s where my do lie but i thought he could get rid o me by law if he were not to overlook it and o if you knew � a you could only half know how i loved him � how anxious i was to have him � and how i was between caring so much for him and my to be fair to him was so shaken that she could get no further and sank a helpless thing into a chair well what s done can t be undone i m sure i don t know why children o my bringing forth by of the d should all be bigger than other people s � not to know better than to such a thing as that when he couldn t ha found it out till too late here mrs began shedding tears on her own account as a mother to be pitied what your father will say i don t know she continued for talking about the wedding up at s and the pure drop every day since and about his family getting back to their position through you � poor y man � and now you ve made this mess of it a lord as if to bring matters to a s father was heard approaching at that moment he did not however enter immediately and mrs said that she would break the bad news to him herself keeping out of sight for the present after her first burst of disappointment began to take the as she had taken s trouble as she would have taken a wet holiday or failure in the crop as a thing which had come upon them of desert or folly a chance external to be borne with not a lesson retreated upstairs and beheld casually that the beds had been shifted and new arrangements made her old bed had been adapted for two younger children there was no place here for her now the room below being j she could hear most of what went on there presently her father entered apparently a live hen he was a foot now having been obliged to sell his second horse and he travelled with h basket on his arm the hen had been carried about this morning as it was often carried to show people that he was in his work though it had lain with its legs tied under the table at s for more than an hour we ve just had up a story began and thereupon related in detail to his wife a discussion which had arisen at the inn about the clergy originated by the fact of his daughter having by the woman pays married into a family they was formerly sir like my own he said though nowadays their true style strictly speaking is clerk only as had wished that no great should be given to the event he had mentioned no particulars he hoped she would remove that soon he proposed that the couple should take s own name d as it was better than her husband s he asked if any letter had come from her that day then mrs informed him that no letter had come but had come herself when at length the was explained to him a sullen mortification not usual with overpowered the influence of the cheering glass yet the quality of the event moved his less than its effect upon the minds of others to think now that this was to be the end o t said sir john and i with a family vault imder that there church of as big as squire s ale cellar and my folk lying there in and as genuine county bones and as any recorded in history and now to be e what they at s and the pure drop will say to me how they ll and e and say this is yer mighty match is it this is yer getting back to the true level of yer forefathers in s time i feel this is too much i shall put an end to myself title and all � i can bear it no longer but she can make him keep her if he s married her why yes but she won t think o doing that d ye think he really have married her � or is it like the first poor who had heard as far as this could not bear to hear more the perception that her word could be doubted even here in her own parental house set her mind against the 