I don't
think you'll do a mean, cowardly act like that again, and if such is
your determination, you can learn me double lessons for tomorrow; then
all will be square between you and me'--and Bolton's bad boy did it."
"That was right enough."
"I hevn't quite finished, sir. In two days he went with the boy to tell
old Padget he was sorry, and the man forgave him without one hard word;
but I hev heard since, that t' master paid for the apples out of his own
pocket, and I would not wonder if he did. What do you think of the man
now?"
"I think a man like that is very much of a man. I shall make it my
business to know him. But what has my brother to do with either Mister
or Miss Lugur?"
"Mr. Henry hes been doing just what Lord Thirsk did; he has been sending
Lucy Lugur flowers and for anything I know, letters. At any rate I saw
them together in Mr. Henry's phaeton on the Lancashire road at ten
o'clock in the morning. I was going to Shillingworth's factory, and I
stayed there an hour, and as I came back to Hatton, Mr.
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