That is just what I told
Terence. 'If master and mistress are willing that I shall marry you
and stay on with them as before, I won't say no, Terence; but if
they say that they would not take a married servant, then Terence,
we must stay as we are.'"
"I have no objection at all, Sarah, and I think I can answer for
Mr. Hardy having none. Terence is a very good, steady fellow, and I
know that Mr. Hardy has a high opinion of him; so you could not
make a marriage which would please us more. We should be very sorry
to Jose you, but we could not in any case have opposed you marrying
whom you liked, and now we shall have the satisfaction of keeping
you here with us."
And so it was settled, and a fortnight afterward Terence and Sarah
had two days' holiday, and went down to Buenos Ayres, where there
was an English church, and came back again man and wife. After that
each went back to work as usual, and the only change was, that
Terence now took his meals and lived in the house instead of down
in the men's huts. By this time they had begun to find out which of
the crops peculiar to warm countries would pay, and which would
not, or rather--for they all paid more or less--which was the most
suitable.
The cotton crop had proved a success; the field had in time been
covered with cotton plants, which had burst first into a bright
yellow blossom, and had then been covered with many balls of white
fluff.
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