CHAPTER XXII.
As To Touching Pitch Before the wedding old Mr.Caldigate arranged with his son that he would give up to the young married people the house at Folking, and indeed the entire management of the property.

'I have made up my mind about it,' said the squire, who at this time was living with his son on happy terms.

'I have never been adapted for the life of a country gentleman,' he continued, 'though I have endeavoured to make the best of it, and have in a certain way come to love the old place.

But I don't care about wheat nor yet about bullocks;--and a country house should always have a mistress.' And so it was settled.

Mr.Caldigate took for himself a house in Cambridge, whither he proposed to remove nothing but himself and his books, and promised to have Folking ready for his son and his son's bride on their return from their wedding tour.