52/63 Only, Thomas Thurnall, if you go for to come for to go for to make such an abominable ass of yourself with that young lady any more, like a miserable school-boy, you will be pleased to make tracks, and vanish out of these parts for ever. For my purse can't afford to have you marrying a schoolmistress in your impoverished old age; and my character, which also is my purse, can't afford worse." One word of Grace's had fixed itself in Tom's memory. What did she mean by "her two ?" He contrived to ask Willis that very evening. He went out fishing on the Sabbath, with another like him, and both were swamped. Wild young lads, both, as lads will be. |