A. T. Quiller-Couch

Name: The Ship of Stars — XVII. The Squire's Weird
Author: A. T. Quiller-Couch

The Ship of Stars — XVII. The Squire's Weird (1899)

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“The Ship of Stars — XVII. The Squire's Weird”, published in 1899, is a work by A. T. Quiller-Couch. It explores elements such as Taffy, Tredinnis and Squire.

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A. T. Quiller-Couch, The Ship of Stars — XVII. The Squire's Weird (1899)

“ I left the mare by Tredinnis great gates and crept down to Moyle's stables like a housebreaker, looked in through the window, and sure enough there was George's grey in the loose box to the right. So George is sleeping there, and I'm easy in my mind. No doubt you think me an old fool?"
But Taffy was not thinking anything of the sort.
"I couldn't wish better than that. You understand?"
"Not quite."
"He lost his mother early. He wants a woman to look after him, and for him to think about. If he and Honoria would only make up a match.... And Carwithiel would be quite a different house." ”

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A. T. Quiller-Couch, The Ship of Stars — XVII. The Squire's Weird (1899)

“ Men told for years after how the old Squire came galloping up the drive that night, hoof to belly, his chin almost on mare Nonsuch's neck, his face like a man's who hears hell cracking behind him, and of the three dusky hounds which followed (the tale said) with clapping jaws and eyes like coach-lamps.
Down in the quiet church Taffy heard the outcry, and, laying down his plane, looked up and saw that his father had heard it too. Mr. Raymond's mild eyes, shining through his spectacles, asked as plainly as words: "What was that?" ”

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A. T. Quiller-Couch, The Ship of Stars — XVII. The Squire's Weird (1899)

“ Taffy hesitated, with a hand on the forge-bellows.
"I dare say it's news to you, what I'm telling. But it has been in my mind this long while. Why don't you blow up the fire? I bet Miss Honoria has thought of it too: girls are deep. She has a head on her shoulders. I'll warrant she sends half a dozen of my servants packing within a week. As it is, they rob me to a stair. I know it, and I haven't the pluck to interfere."
"What does the old Squire say?" Taffy managed to ask. ”

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A. T. Quiller-Couch, The Ship of Stars — XVII. The Squire's Weird (1899)

“ Taffy shook his head.
"George is a bit wild. Oxford might have done something for him; made a man of him, I mean. But he wouldn't go. I believe in wild oats to a certain extent. I have told him from the first he must look after himself and decide for himself. That's my theory. It makes a youngster self-reliant. He goes and comes as he likes. If he comes home late from hunting I ask no questions; I don't wait dinner. Don't you agree with me?"
"I don't know," Taffy answered, wondering why he should be consulted.
"Self-reliance is what a man wants." ”

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A. T. Quiller-Couch, The Ship of Stars — XVII. The Squire's Weird (1899)

“ He sank his voice. "There's wantonness, for one thing—six love-children born in the parish this year, and more coming. They do say that Vashti Clemow destroyed her child. And Old Man Johns—him they found dead on the rocks under the Island—he didn't go there by accident. 'Twas a calm day, too."
As often as not Taffy worked late and blew his forge-fire alone in the church, the tap of his hammer making hollow music in the desolate aisles. He was working thus one windy night in February, when the door rattled open and in walked a totally unexpected visitor—Sir Harry Vyell. ”

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A. T. Quiller-Couch, The Ship of Stars — XVII. The Squire's Weird (1899)

“ To tell you the truth, he's failing fast. This religion of his is a symptom: all of his family have taken to it in the end. If he hadn't the constitution of a horse, he'd have been converted ten years before this. ”

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A. T. Quiller-Couch, The Ship of Stars — XVII. The Squire's Weird (1899)

“ I'll show 'ee sport— we'll hunt th' old Divvle by scent and view to-night. I'm Squire Moyle, ain't I? And I've a pack o' hounds, ha'n't I? Back, boys— back, I tell 'ee!"
Lizzie Pezzack swung her torch. "Back—back to Tredinnis!" The crowd took up the cry, "Back to Tredinnis!" The old man shook off the Bryanite's hand, and as the procession wheeled and re-formed itself confusedly, rushed to the head of it, waving his hat—
"Back!—Back to Tredinnis!"
"God help them!" said Mr. Raymond; and taking Taffy by the arm, drew him back into the church. ”

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