It would be very easy, when you are once well settled, to claim her as your wife." "That's all very true and very reasonable, 'squire; but it's rather hard, this waiting.

Here, for five years, have I been playing this sort of game, and it goes greatly against the grain to have to begin anew and in a new place.

But here's where the old buck lives.

It's quite a snug farm, as you may see.

He's pretty well off, and, by one little end or the other, contrives to make it look smarter and smarter every year; but then he's just as close as a corkscrew, and quite mean in his ways.
And--there's Kate, 'squire, looking from the window.