13/15 Union-workhouses and child-murder don't look much like it. Talking of that, Tregarva, what is to become of your promise to take me to a village wake, and show me what the poor are like ?' 'I can keep it this night, sir. There is a revel at Bone-sake, about five miles up the river. Will you go with a discharged gamekeeper ?' 'I will go with Paul Tregarva, whom I honour and esteem as one of God's own noblemen; who has taught me what a man can be, and what I am not,'-- and Lancelot grasped the keeper's hand warmly. Tregarva brushed his hand across his eyes, and answered,-- '"I said in my haste, All men are liars;" and God has just given me the lie back in my own teeth. |