So let you and I come to an understandin'." A blind inclination to take offence made Richard sit upright.

He forgot it the next minute, and said humbly: "Am I the cause of her going ?" "Well!" returned the farmer, "to speak straight--ye be!" "What can I do, Mr.Blaize, that she may come back again" the young hypocrite asked.
"Now," said the farmer, "you're coming to business.

Glad to hear ye talk in that sensible way, Mr.Feverel.You may guess I wants her bad enough.
The house ain't itself now she's away, and I ain't myself.

Well, sir! This ye can do.

If you gives me your promise not to meddle with her at all--I can't mak' out how you come to be acquainted; not to try to get her to be meetin' you--and if you'd 'a seen her when she left, you would--when did ye meet ?--last grass, wasn't it ?--your word as a gentleman not to be writing letters, and spyin' after her--I'll have her back at once.