"Grant ye that! Yer bold enough, young gentleman--comes of the blood that should be! If y' had only ha' spoke trewth!--I believe yer father--believe every word he said.

I do wish I could ha' said as much for Sir Austin's son and heir." "What!" cried Richard, with an astonishment hardly to be feigned, "you have seen my father ?" But Farmer Blaize had now such a scent for lies that he could detect them where they did not exist, and mumbled gruffly, "Ay, we knows all about that!" The boy's perplexity saved him from being irritated.

Who could have told his father?
An old fear of his father came upon him, and a touch of an old inclination to revolt.
"My father knows of this ?" said he, very loudly, and staring, as he spoke, right through the farmer.

"Who has played me false?
Who would betray me to him?
It was Austin! No one knew it but Austin.

Yes, and it was Austin who persuaded me to come here and submit to these indignities.