[Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookPut Yourself in His Place CHAPTER I 8/10
His father lies up there, and so do all his folk.
Put on thy hat this minute, and I'll hood myself, and we'll go up to Raby Hall, and tell Squire." Abel objected to that, and intimated that his own fireside was particularly inviting to a man who had seen diabolical fires that came and went, and shone through the very stones and mortar of a dead church. "Nay, but," said Janet, "they sort o' warnings are not to be slighted neither.
We must put it off on to Squire, or I shall sleep none this night." They went up, hand in hand, and often looked askant upon the road. When they got to the Hall, they asked to see Mr.Raby.After some demur they were admitted to his presence, and found him alone, so far as they could judge by the naked eye; but, as they arrived there charged to the muzzle with superstition, the room presented to their minds some appearances at variance with this seeming solitude.
Several plates were set as if for guests, and the table groaned, and the huge sideboard blazed, with old silver.
The Squire himself was in full costume, and on his bosom gleamed two orders bestowed upon his ancestors by James III.
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