"Not live at Llanfeare?"
"I think not. I'm not quite fitted to the place. It isn't my doing, but among you all, I fear, you don't like me." As he said this he tried to carry it off with a laugh.
"You'd live down that, Squire, if you did your duty, and was good to the people;—and took no more than was your own. But perhaps you don't like a country life."
"I don't like being where I ain't liked; that's the truth of it, Mr Griffith."
"Who'll come in your place, if I may be so bold as to ask?"
"Miss Brodrick shall,—if she will. It was not I who asked my uncle to bring me here."
"But she is not to have the property?"
"Not the property;—at least I suppose not. But she shall have the house and the grounds, and the land adjacent. And she shall manage it all, dividing the rents with me, or something of that kind. I have offered it to her, but I do not say that she will agree. In the meantime, if you will come up and see me sometimes, I will take it as a kindness. I do not know that I have done any harm, so as to be shunned."
Then Farmer Griffith readily said that he would go up occasionally and see his landlord.