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The charene found hiry, and the noonchin was produced, after which the as continued to the far people were made very welcome

Farmers were, as a rule, more rustic than the present labourer, but they lived a life of far less care, if ofa jocund plenty The clean kitchen, with the stone floor, the beaupot ofwalnut-wood table, the spinning-wheel, wooden chairs, and foraled with home-made brown bread, delicious butter and honey, and a choice of new milk, mead, and currant wine

Dame Jewel, in a white frill under a black silken hood, a buff turnover kerchief, stout stuff gown and white apron, was delighted to wait on the kittens and puppies in baskets on opposite sides of the , the chickens before their coops, the ducklings like yellow balls on the grass, and the huge fas which, to the scandal of his sisters, he declared theof the young baronet being in the neighbourhood, and was by no ence

"Lack-a-day! Miss Harriet, you don'tdown here! I don't want none of theh They h the crops, ay, and horsewhipping the farmer if he do but say a word for the sweat of his brow"

"O Mrs Jewel!" cried Aurelia, in whose ear lingered the courteous accents of her partner, "they would never behave themselves so"

"Bless you, Miss Orreely, I'll tell you what I've seen with ood man, the master here, with the horsewhip laid about his shoulders at that very thornbush, by one of the fine gentlefolks, just because he had h, andby in her laced scarlet habit on her fine horse, s, 'Thank you, sir, the rascals need to learn not to interfere with our sport,' all in that gentle sounding low voice of hers, enough to drive one ht Sir Jovian had been a kind entle This was one of the fine young rakish fellows fro about my Lady, like bees over that maybush Sir Thoot killed by a wild boar, hunting in foreign parts, afterwards, and serve hi, whether for bad or good, so maybe it was less his fault than hers She is a bitter one, isbarrowknight will be his own ood job we have your good papa, the Major, to stand between her and us; I only wish he had his own, for a rare good landlord he would be"