It would have been more fitting had you made it earlier." Winston nodded as he took a chair.

"I fancy I understand you, but I have nothing that you expect to hear to tell you, sir." "That," said Barrington, "is unfortunate.

Now, it is not my business to pose as a censor of the conduct of any man here, except when it affects the community, but their friends have sent out a good many young English lads, some of whom have not been too discreet in the old country, to me.

They did not do so solely that I might teach them farming.

A charge of that kind is no light responsibility, and I look for assistance from the men who have almost as large a stake as I have in the prosperity of Silverdale." "Have you ever seen me do anything you could consider prejudicial to it ?" asked Winston.
"I have not," said Colonel Barrington.
"And it was by her own wish Miss Barrington, who, I fancy, is seldom mistaken, asked me to the Grange ?" "It is a good plea," said Barrington.