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Book, page 220 / 462 recurred to his memory, but being a bashful man, he did not like to go himself on purpose to make his request, and he desired his wife, who was just setting out to market, to call at Grant's gate, and, if he was at work in his garden, to ask him for a few plants of his raspberries. The answer which Oakly's wife brought to him was that Mr. Grant had not a raspberry-plant in the world to give him, and that if he had ever so many, he would not give one away, except to his own son. Oakly flew into a passion when he received such a message, declared it was just such a mean, shabby trick as might have been expected from a Scotchman--called himself a booby, a dupe, and a blockhead, for ever having trusted to the civil speeches of a Scotchman--swore that he would die in the parish workhouse before he would ever ask another favour, be it ever so small, from a Scotchman; related to his wife, for the hundredth time, the way in which he had been taken in by the Scotch peddler ten years ago, and concluded by forswearing all further intercourse with Mr. Grant, and all belonging to him. "Son Arthur," said he, addressing himself to the boy, who just then came in from work--"Son Arthur, do you hear me? let me never again see you with Grant's son." "With Maurice, father?" "With Maurice Grant, I say; I forbid you from this day and hour forward to have anything to do with him." "Oh, why, dear father?" "Ask no questions but do as I bid you." Arthur burst out a crying, and only said, "Yes, father, I'll do as you bid me, to be sure." "Why now, what does the boy cry for? Is there no other boy, simpleton, think you, to play with, but this Scotchman's son! I'll find out another play-fellow for ye, child, if that be all." "That's not all, father," said Arthur, trying to stop himself from
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