"
When they were there they saw all the arrivals just as they were
seen on the same spot a few months earlier by a very different
party. Mary and Kate stood on the bridge together, while he
remained a little behind leaning on the style. She, poor girl, had
felt some shame in showing herself, knowing that some who were
present would have heard of her engagement, and that others would
be told of it as soon as she was seen. "Are you ashamed of what you
are going to do?" he asked.
"Ashamed! I don't suppose that there is a girl in England so proud
as I am at this minute."
"I don't know that there is anything to be proud of, but if you are
not ashamed, why shouldn't you show yourself? Marriage is an
honourable state!" She could only pinch his arm, and do as he bade
her.
Glomax in his tandem, and Lord Rufford in his drag, were rather
late. First there came one or two hunting men out of the town,
Runciman, Dr. Nupper, and the hunting saddler. Then there arrived
Henry Stubbings with a string of horses, mounted by little boys,
ready for his customers, and full of wailing to his friend
Runciman. Here was nearly the end of March and the money he had
seen since Christmas was little more, as he declared, than what he
could put into his eye and see none the worse. "Charge 'em ten per
cent interest," said Runciman.
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