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THE MAN OF FEELING. 19J
where the juftices meet about the deflroy-
[ ing of haras and partridges, and them
things ; and Tom’s eyes loc ked fo red
and fo bleared when I called him to get
the barberries :—And I hear as how Sir
Harry is going to be married to Mifs
Walton.”—“ How! Mifs Walton mar¬
ried!” faid Harley. “ Why, it may not
be true. Sir, for all that; but Tom’s wife
told it me, and to be fure the fervants
told her, and their maftef told them, as
I guefs. Sir ; but it may not be true for
all that, as I faid before.—“ Have done
with your idle information, faid Harley :
—Is my aunt come down into the parlour
to breakfaft ?”—“ Yes, Sir,”—“ Tell her
I’ll be with her immediately.”——
When Peter was gone, he flood with
his eyes fixed on the ground, and the
laft words of his intelligence vibrating in
his ears. “ Mifs Walton married !” he
fighed—and walked down flairs, with ! is
fhoe as it was, and the buckle iu his
S z hand.