I have a long round to make." He jumped into the dog cart and drove away, while the girl went quietly back into the house.
Her father looked up at the clock.
"Two o'clock," he said; "I must be going.

I expected George Lechmere over here.

He was coming to talk with me about his father's twelve-acre meadow.

I want it badly this winter, for I have had more land under the plough than usual this year.

I must either get some pasture or sell off some of my stock." "George Lechmere came, father," Martha said, with an angry toss of her head, "but when he saw me talking to Captain Mallett he turned and went off; just as if I was not to open my lips to any man but himself." The farmer would have spoken, but his wife shook her head at him.
George Lechmere had been at one time engaged to Martha, but his jealousy had caused so many quarrels that the engagement had been broken off.