47/60 He's right to get even with the family if he can." "But the old Squire! He is now----" "I know; he's older than I am. But Squire Percival has had his day, and Fred would not do anything out of the way to him--he could not; the county would make both Mostyn and Rawdon very uncomfortable places to live in, if he did." "If you turn a man out of his home when he is eighty years old, I think that is 'out of the way.' And Mr.Mostyn is not to be trusted. I wouldn't trust him as far as I could see him." "Highty-tighty! He has not asked you to trust him. You lost your chance there, miss." "Grandmother, I am astonished at you!" "Well, it was a mean thing to say, Ethel; but I like Fred, and I see the rest of my family are against him. It's natural for Yorkshire to help the weakest side. |