"Say? Why he said it would be his duty to forgive him, and he hoped I should see it in the same light, which I said I didn't, and wasn't likely to."
"Trust you for that. It was brassy of the poor fellow, though. Well, what did he want to know next?" asked Tom.
"He wanted to know if I was serious in giving him notice to quit at Ladytide. And I told him I was never more serious in my life than when I wrote that notice."
"'And you mean to stick to it?' said he."
"And I did and do mean to stick to it, I told him."
"Yes, and then?" Tom rejoined.
"And who was to have the farm after him? This was his next inquiry."
"And you told him, I suppose?"
"Couldn't tell him what I didn't know. And so I said."
"Why, isn't his brother Matthew to have it?"