Remember, I was brought up with him till I was sent away to school, so I cannot be radically different.

At any rate, I don't feel so.

That is, no doubt, my fault, and a great blemish in me.

But I hope you will put up with it, Edgar." Fitzpiers said that he would endeavor to do so; and as it was now getting on for dusk, they prepared to perform the last stage of their journey, so as to arrive at Hintock before it grew very late.
In less than half an hour they started, the cider-makers in the yard having ceased their labors and gone away, so that the only sounds audible there now were the trickling of the juice from the tightly screwed press, and the buzz of a single wasp, which had drunk itself so tipsy that it was unconscious of nightfall.

Grace was very cheerful at the thought of being soon in her sylvan home, but Fitzpiers sat beside her almost silent.