A Fair Fraud — page 201: what you’re looking at

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190 A Fair Fraud you, Ken, go on with Mr Grigson into this first field—you can work the edges of the wood on that side up towards the turnips at the top. I will keep on with the rest as far as the mill, and then double back by the new plantations and meet you at the brow of the hill. Come, Mr Naylor, and you, Mr Joseph Grigson—three | guns will be necessary for our beat.’ The party were now standing in a group together at the gate of the field, whilst Mr Drury marshalled his forces, dividing them into two sections. Naylor became hopelessly separated from Kenneth, and there was no more chance of private conversation between them. ‘What a stupid blunder,’ he said to himself, as he trudged along the quarter of a mile of high road between his host and old Grigson. ‘Poor girl, she’s bad enough, I daresay, but not quite so bad as all that. How these lovers do rush to conclusions! However, luckily the mistake can be very easily set right. I must try and walk back with him this afternoon and tell him. I need not, of course, tell the whole story, only enough of it to show him that he is wronging Miss Lane entirely; and I don't suppose little Marion will consider me wanting in faith to her because I disabuse Kenneth’s >a * Fe