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In a few days, life settled itself to orderly occupations The Squire was a late riser; the Judge and his family breakfasted very early Then the toarden, or sat reading, or sewing, or writing in some of the sweet, fair rooms Many visitors soon appeared, and there were calls to return and courtesies to accept A these visitors the Tyrrel-Rawdons were the earliest The representatives of that family were Nicholas Rawdon and his wife Lydia Nicholas Raas a large, stout ant, very co e Rawdon's visit, but thought it best to be cousinly until his cousin interfered with his plans--"rights" he called thereat deal, for Nicholas Raas aan enearrulous woman, who interested Ethel very much Her fahters, one of whoe"; and the other, "a rich cotton lord in Manchester"
"They haven't done badly," she said confidentially, "and it's a great thing to get girls off your hands early Adelaide and Martha ell educated and suitable, but," she added with a glow of pride, "you should see er of the mill, and he loves the mill, and he knows every pound of warp or weft that cooes out of the mill; and what his father would do without him, I'm sure I don't know And he is a member of Parliament, too--Radical ticket Won over Mostyn Wiped Mostyn out pretty well That was a thing to do, wasn't it?"
"I suppose Mr Mostyn was the Conservative candidate?"
"You may be sure of that But entry have to be Conservatives John Thoainst his politics; he just set the crowd laughing at his ways--his dandified ways And he tried to wear one eyeglass, and let it fall, and fall, and then told the e half a pair of spectacles; but he could hts,' and such like talk And he walked like Mostyn, and he talked like Mostyn, and spread out his legs, and twirled his walking stick like Mostyn, and asked theo to Parliament in that kind of a shape, as he'd try and do it if they wanted a tailor-hed him down, and then he spoke reasonable to them John Thomas knohat Yorkshire weavers want, and he just pro they had set their hearts on; and so they sent him to Parliament, and Mostyn went to America, where, perhaps, they'll teach him that a man's life is worth a bit ame, and his father was a mean creature When one thinks of his father, one has to excuse the young man a little bit"