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The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Complete

Chapter 3 DIPWELL FARM

Word Count: 2550    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

rt from their furniture. All the fresh eggs, and the butter stamped, with three bees, and the pots of honey, the fowls, and the hare lifted out of the hamper by his hind legs, and the country

ome of it, I settled into contentment. A strong impression was made on me by Mrs. Waddy's saying, 'Here, Master Harry, your own papa will come for you; and you may be sure he will, for I have his word he will, and he's not one to break it, unless his country's against him; and for his darling boy he'd

. Waddy remarked of me flatteringly, '

ye,' said Mrs. Thresher,

er of them reached that goal. But whenever he spok

on meat-dish hot, and I'm to repeat what I said, to make sure the child haven't heard anything ungrammatical. The child's nursemaid he'd lecture so, the poor girl would come down to me ready to bend double, like a bundle of nothing, his observations so took the pride out of her. T

his crop ain't nigh reaping yet. Hark you, Mary Waddy, who're a widde, which 's as much as say, an unocc'pied mind, there'

dy said reflectively,

t's the trick o'

egan praising him, to

e over-careful. A stew's a stew, and not a boiling to

artha: we must take the good an

lar, and you're a

ut her mouth

, wrinkling arches o

ined her advantage. 'Art

y expressing a doubt of

ieve, and this was my feeling in my father's absence. I knew he would come, without wishing to hurry him. He had the world beyond the hills; I this one, where a slow full river flowed from the sounding mill under our garden wall, through long meadows. In Winter the wild ducks made letters of the alphabet flying. On the other side of the copses bounding our home, there was a park containing trees old as the History of England, John Thresher said, and the thought of their venerable age enclosed me comfortably. He could not tell me whether he meant as old as the book of English History; he fancied he did, for the furrow-track follows the plough close upon; but no one exactly could swear when that (the book) was put togeth

ghbourhood of the farm, and he accosted me at Leckham fair. 'I say, don't we know one another? Ho

ed by Bob, who fought for me, and won me, and my allegiance instantly returned to him. He carried me almost the whole of the way back to Dipwell. Women must feel for the lucky heroes who win them, something of what I felt for mine; I kissed his bloody face, refusing to let him wipe it. John Thresher said to me at night, 'Ay, now

f John. There was no moving on until he was filled. His process of receiving historical knowledge was to fight over again the personages who did injury to our honour as a nation, then shake hands and be proud of them. 'For where we ain't quite successful we're cunning,' he said; 'and we not being able to get rid of William the Conqueror, because he's got a will of his o

ent, for that was the trick o' brewery. Every puzzle that beset him in life resolved to this cheerful precept, the value of which, he said, was shown by clear brown ale, the drink of the land. Even as a child I felt that he was peculiarly an Englishman. Tales of injustice done on the Niger river would flush him in a heat of wrath till he cried out for fresh taxes

d to blow a wind of changes on me that made me sure my father had begun to stir up his part of the world. He sent me a prayer in his own handwriting to say for my mother in heaven. I saw it flying up between black edges whenever I shut my eyes. Martha Thresher dosed me for liv

d it like snow off the fields. He came with postillions in advance of him wearing crape rosettes, as did the horses. We were in the cricket-field, where Dipwell was playing its first match of the season, and a Dipwell lad, furious to see the elevens commit such a breach of the rules and decency as to tro

hort speech, and named himself a regular subscriber to their innocent pleasures. He gave them money, and scattered silver coin among the boys and girls, and praised John Thresher, and Martha, his wife, for their care of me, and pointing to the chimneys of the farm, said that the house there was holy to him from hencefor

enth day of May shall be a day of pleasure for Dipwell while I last, and you will

howed him flowers I had planted, and

of my doings: 'madam, I am your life-long de

ut: 'Why, dame, you t

lar farewell of any one of my friends. I told him I had forgotten no one, and thought it was true, until on our way up the sandy lane, which offered us a last close view of the old wall-flower farm front, I saw little Mabel Sweetwinter, often my playfellow and bedfellow, a curly-headed girl, who would have danced on Sun

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1 Chapter 1 I AM A SUBJECT OF CONTENTION2 Chapter 2 AN ADVENTURE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT3 Chapter 3 DIPWELL FARM4 Chapter 4 I HAVE A TASTE OF GRANDEUR5 Chapter 5 I MAKE A DEAR FRIEND6 Chapter 6 A TALE OF A GOOSE7 Chapter 7 A FREE LIFE ON THE ROAD8 Chapter 8 JANET ILCHESTER9 Chapter 9 AN EVENING WITH CAPTAIN BULSTED10 Chapter 10 AN EXPEDITION11 Chapter 11 THE GREAT FOG AND THE FIRE AT MIDNIGHT12 Chapter 12 WE FIND OURSELVES BOUND ON A VOYAGE13 Chapter 13 WE CONDUCT SEVERAL LEARNED ARGUMENTS WITH THE CAPTAIN OF THE PRISCILLA14 Chapter 14 I MEET OLD FRIENDS15 Chapter 15 WE ARE ACCOSTED BY A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE LADY IN THE FOREST16 Chapter 16 THE STATUE ON THE PROMONTORY17 Chapter 17 MY FATHER BREATHES, MOVES, AND SPEAKS18 Chapter 18 WE PASS A DELIGHTFUL EVENING, AND I HAVE A MORNING VISION19 Chapter 19 OUR RETURN HOMEWARD20 Chapter 20 NEWS OF A FRESH CONQUEST OF MY FATHER'S21 Chapter 21 A PROMENADE IN BATH22 Chapter 22 CONCLUSION OF THE BATH EPISODE23 Chapter 23 MY TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY24 Chapter 24 I MEET THE PRINCESS25 Chapter 25 ON BOARD A YACHT26 Chapter 26 IN VIEW OF THE HOHENZOLLERN'S BIRTHPLACE27 Chapter 27 THE TIME OF ROSES28 Chapter 28 OTTILIA29 Chapter 29 AN EVENING WITH DR. JULIUS VON KARSTEG30 Chapter 30 A SUMMER STORM, AND LOVE31 Chapter 31 PRINCESS OTTILIA'S LETTER32 Chapter 32 AN INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE ERNEST AND A MEETING WITH PRINCE OTTO33 Chapter 33 WHAT CAME OF A SHILLING34 Chapter 34 I GAIN A PERCEPTION OF PRINCELY STATE35 Chapter 35 THE SCENE IN THE LAKE-PALACE LIBRARY36 Chapter 36 HOMEWARD AND HOME AGAIN37 Chapter 37 JANET RENOUNCES ME38 Chapter 38 MY BANKERS' BOOK39 Chapter 39 I SEE MY FATHER TAKING THE TIDE AND AM CARRIED ON IT MYSELF40 Chapter 40 MY FATHER'S MEETING WITH MY GRANDFATHER41 Chapter 41 COMMENCEMENT OF THE SPLENDOURS AND PERPLEXITIES OF MY FATHER'S GRAND42 Chapter 42 THE MARQUIS OF EDBURY AND HIS PUPPET43 Chapter 43 I BECOME ONE OF THE CHOSEN OF THE NATION44 Chapter 44 MY FATHER IS MIRACULOUSLY RELIEVED BY FORTUNE45 Chapter 45 WITHIN AN INCH OF MY LIFE46 Chapter 46 AMONG GIPSY WOMEN47 Chapter 47 MY FATHER ACTS THE CHARMER AGAIN48 Chapter 48 THE PRINCESS ENTRAPPED49 Chapter 49 WHICH FORESHADOWS A GENERAL GATHERING50 Chapter 50 WE ARE ALL IN MY FATHER'S NET51 Chapter 51 AN ENCOUNTER SHOWING MY FATHER'S GENIUS IN A STRONG LIGHT52 Chapter 52 STRANGE REVELATIONS, AND MY GRANDFATHER HAS HIS LAST OUTBURST53 Chapter 53 THE HEIRESS PROVES THAT SHE INHERITS THE FEUD AND I GO DRIFTING54 Chapter 54 MY RETURN TO ENGLAND55 Chapter 55 I MEET MY FIRST PLAYFELLOW AND TAKE MY PUNISHMENT56 Chapter 56 CONCLUSION