' But he was 'afeard on the Governor,
too.'
His visits to Bartram-Haugh, I heard, were desultory; and this, to my
relief, would probably not outlast a week or a fortnight. 'He _was_ such a
fashionable cove:' he was always 'a gadding about, mostly to Liverpool and
Birmingham, and sometimes to Lunnun, itself.' He was 'keeping company
one time with Beauty, Governor thought, and he was awfully afraid he'd a
married her; but that was all bosh and nonsense; and Beauty would have none
of his chaff and wheedling, for she liked Tom Brice;' and Milly thought
that Dudley never 'cared a crack of a whip for her.' He used to go to the
Windmill to have 'a smoke with Pegtop;' and he was a member of the Feltram
Club, that met at the 'Plume o' Feathers.' He was 'a rare good shot,' she
heard; and 'he was before the justices for poaching, but they could make
nothing of it.' And the Governor said 'it was all through spite of him--for
they hate us for being better blood than they.' And 'all but the squires
and those upstart folk loves Dudley, he is so handsome and gay--though he
be a bit cross at home.' And, 'Governor says, he'll be a Parliament man
yet, spite o' them all.
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