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ate you to pity _me_." "I shouldn't dream of pitying you, any more than I should dream of criticising you." "Oh, you may criticise as much as you like." "No. Whatever you did it would make no difference. I should know it was right because you did it." "It wouldn't be. I do heaps of wrong things, but _this_ is right." "I'm sure it is." "Here's Colin," she said. He had come out to look for them. He couldn't bear to be alone. vi Jerrold had gone to Sutton's Farm to say good-bye to their old nurse, Nanny Sutton. Nanny talked about the war, about the young men who had gone from Wyck and would not come back, about the marvel of Sutton's living on through it all, and he so old and feeble. She talked about Colin and Anne. "Oh, Master Jerrold," she said, "I do think it's a pity she should be livin' all alone with Mr. Colin like this 'ere." "They're all right, Nanny. You needn't worry." "Well--well, Miss Anne was always one to go her own way and make it seem the right way." "You may be perfectly sure it is the right way." "I'm not sayin' as 'tisn't. And I dunnow what Master Colin'd a done without her. But it do make people talk. There's a deal of strange things said in the place." "Don't listen to them." "Eh dear, I'll not 'ear a word. When anybody says anything to me I tell 'em straight they'd oughter be ashamed of themselves, back-bitin' and slanderin'." "That's right, Nanny, you give it them in the neck." "If it'd only end in talk, but there's been harm done to the innocent. There's Mr. and Mrs. Kimber. Kimber, 'e's my 'usband's cousing." Nanny paused. "What about him?" "Well, 'tis this way. They're doin' for Miss Anne, livin' in the house with her. Kimber, 'e sees to the garden and Mrs. Kimber she cooks and that. And Kimber--that's my 'usband's cousin--'e was gardener at the vicarage. And now 'e's lost his job along of Master Colin and Miss Anne." "What do you mean?" "Well, sir, 'tis the vicar. 'E says they 'adn't oughter be livin' in the house with Miss Anne, because of the talk there's been. So 'e says Kimber must choose between 'em. And Kimber, 'e says 'e'd have minded what parson said if it had a bin a church matter or such like, but parson or no parson, 'e says 'e's his own master an' 'e won't have no interferin' with him and his missus. So he's lost his job." "Poor old Kimber. What a beastly shame." "Eh, 'tis a shame to be sure." "Never mind; I can give him a
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