"Wot, f?ather?""Noit's just something one enjoys, same as cakes and bull's-eyes. I've kissed dozens of people in my time and meant nothing by it, nor they either. It's because you've no experience of these things that you think such a lot of 'em. They're quite unimportant really, and it's silly to make a fuss.""Quite so," said Albert, who seemed to have learned sarcasm in exile"h?morrhage is so deuced easy to sham."
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Fate, having thus generously given him a start, continued to encourage him in the race he was running against her. On the way to Rye he fell in with Bertie Ditch. Bertie was going to marry a girl up at [Pg 162]Brightling, and Robert found that there was nothing easier than to discuss with him the ways and means of marriage. From his ravings on his marriage in particular precious information with regard to marriage in general could be extracted. Oh, yes, he had heard of fellows who got married by licence, but banns were more genteel, and he didn't doubt but that a marriage by banns was altogether a better and more religious sort. He and Nellie, etc., etc.... Oh, he didn't think a licence cost muchtwo or three pounds, and an ordinary wedding by banns would cost quite as much as that; when one had paid for the choir and the ringers and the breakfast. Now he and Nellie ... oh, of course, if you were in a hurryyes; but anyhow he thought one of the parties must live a week or so in the parish where the marriage was to take place."To Hailes.But when all is ready, I must go up the lane yonder," pointing to the right"'tis but a step, and fetch Stephen Holgraveand the poor fellow shall go with us to see his mother buried as she ought to be.""Can't I induce you to spare them? There are only too few of those ancient landmarks left in Sussex.""I'm tiredlet's sit down and rest a bit."
