"I'm glad I listened to you," he said.

"It's unfortunate for him and his niece that Barrington wouldn't--at least, not until he had lost the opportunity." "I don't understand," said Winston.
"No," said the farmer, "you've been away.

Well, you know it takes a long while to get an idea into the Colonel's head, but once it's in, it's even harder to get it out again.

Now Barrington looked down on wheat jobbing, but money's tight at Silverdale, and when he saw what you were making, he commenced to think.

Accordingly, he's going to sell, and, as he seems convinced that wheat will not go up again, let half the acreage lie fallow this season.