"I don't think he will say much to me, however.

He has a grudge against father, and his son does not like me.
I am sorry that father is compelled to have some business relations with the squire." "Indeed!" "Yes, he holds a mortgage on our farm for eight hundred dollars.

It was originally more, but it has been reduced to this.

He will have the right to foreclose on the first of July." "Shall you have the money ready for him at that time ?" "No; we may have half enough, perhaps.

I am sometimes troubled when I think of it.