made no reply when Sam declared his purpose of
leaving the mill before Christmas unless Agnes should be received
there as his wife;--but at last he gave way. "As the old 'uns go into
their graves," he said, "it's no more than nature that the young 'uns
should become masters." And so Sam was married, and was taken, with
his wife, to live with the other Brattles at the mill. It was well
for the miller that it should be so, for Sam was a man who would
surely earn money when he put his shoulder in earnest to the wheel.

As for Carry, she lived still with them, doomed by her beauty, as was
her elder sister by the want of it, to expect that no lover should
come and ask her to establish with him a homestead of their own.

Our friend the Vicar married Sam and his sweetheart, and is still
often at the mill. From time to time he has made efforts to convert
the unbelieving old man whose grave is now so near to his feet; but
he has never prevailed to make the miller own even the need of any
change. "I've struv' to be honest," he said, when last he was thus
attacked, "and I've wrought for my wife and bairns. I ain't been a
drunkard, nor yet, as I knows on, neither a tale-bearer, nor yet a
liar. I've been harsh-tempered and dour enough I know, and maybe it's
fitting as they shall be hard and dour to me where I'm going. I don't
say again it, Muster Fenwick;--but nothing as I can do now 'll change
it." This, at any rate, was clear to the Vicar,--that Death, when it
came, would come without making the old man tremble.

Mr. Gilmore has been some years away from Bullhampton; but when I
last heard from my friends in that village I was told that at last he
was expected home.

Bradbury, Evans, and Co., Printers, Whitefriars.

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Transcriber's note:

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

Chapter I, paragraph 10. The reader should note that the
town of Haylesbury named in this paragraph is henceforth
called Haytesbury.

Chapter IV, paragraph 1. The gardener is here called
"Jem;" in the rest of the text he is called "Jim". We
do not know whether this is a typographical error or
an example of Trollope's inconsistency with the names
of minor characters.

Chapter XL, paragraph 28. The astute reader of Trollope
will recognize the "Dragon of Wantley" as the name of
the hostelry inherited by Mr. Harding's daughter Eleanor
in the "Bars