e to
the bottom of them at the rate of a penny a look. I know that you went
away for love of Mary, and flung yourself into the finery of London
to try to get rid of the thought of her, and came down with all this
nonsense of britschkas, and whiskers, and waistcoats, and rings, just to
show her what a beau she had lost in losing you--Did not you, now? Well!
don't stand squeezing my hand, but go and meet your French friend, who
has got a man, I see, to help to pick up the fallen equipage. Go and get
rid of him," quoth Susan.

"How can I?" exclaimed William, in laughing perplexity.

"Give him the britschka!" responded his sister, "and send them off
together as fast as may be. That will be a magnificent farewell. And
then take your portmanteau into the copse, and change all this trumpery
for the shooting-jacket and its belongings; and then come back and let
me trim these whiskers as closely as scissors can trim them, and then
we'll go to the farm, to gladden the hearts of Harebell, Hector, my dear
father, and--somebody else; and it will not be that somebody's fault if
ever you go to London again, or get into a britschka, or put on a chain,
or a ring, or write with blue ink upon pink paper, as long as you live.
Now go and dismiss the Frenchman," added Susan, laughing, "and well
walk home together the happiest brother and sister in Christendom."

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