That Goarly was a rascal the Senator had acknowledged. So
far the general opinion down in Rufford had been correct. But he
could get nobody to see,--or at any rate could get nobody to
acknowledge,--that the rascality of Goarly had had nothing to do
with the question as he had taken it up. The man's right to his own
land,--his right to be protected from pheasants and foxes, from
horses and hounds,--was not lessened by the fact that he was a poor
ignorant squalid dishonest wretch. Mr. Gotobed had now received a
bill from Bearside for 42l. 7s. 9d. for costs in the case, leaving
after the deduction of 15l. already paid a sum of 27l. 7s. 9d.
stated to be still due. And this was accompanied by an intimation
that as he, Mr. Gotobed, was a foreigner soon about to leave the
country, Mr. Bearside must request that his claim might be settled
quite at once. No one could be less likely than our Senator to
leave a foreign country without paying his bills. He had quarrelled
with Morton,--who also at this time was too ill to have given him
much assistance. Though he had become acquainted with half
Dillsborough, there was nobody there to whom he could apply. Thus
he was driven to employ a London attorney, and the London attorney
told him that he had better pay Bearside;--the Senator remembering
at the time that he would also have to pay the London attorney for
his advice.
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