It was
the spot in Dillsborough in which they would most certainly be left
undisturbed. This took place on the day before his proposition for
the sale of Chowton Farm. When he got the attorney into the
churchyard he took out Mary's letter and in speechless agony handed
it to the attorney. "I saw it before it went," said Masters putting
it back with his hand:
"I suppose she means it?" asked Larry.
"I can't say to you but what she does, Twentyman. As far as I know
her she isn't a girl that would ever say anything that she didn't
mean."
"I was sure of that. When I got it and read it, it was just as
though some one had come behind me and hit me over the head with a
wheel-spoke. I couldn't have ate a morsel of breakfast if I knew I
wasn't to see another bit of food for four-and-twenty hours."
"I knew you would feel it, Larry."
"Feel it! Till it came to this I didn't think of myself but what I
had more strength. It has knocked me about till I feel all over
like drinking."
"Don't do that, Larry."
"I won't answer for myself what I'll do. A man sets his heart on a
thing,--just on one thing,--and has grit enough in him to be sure
of himself that if he can get that nothing shall knock him over.
When that thoroughbred mare of mine slipped her foal who can say I
ever whimpered. When I got pleuro among the cattle I killed a'most
the lot of 'em out of hand, and never laid awake a night about it.
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