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`` Dick is at my house , I can arrange time and place with you this minute , and he will be on the ground with me . '' `` Very well , '' said Tom ; `` where is it to be ? '' `` Suppose we say the cross-roads , halfway between this and Merryvale ? There 's very pretty ground there , and we shall be able to get our pistols and all that ready in the meantime between this and four o'clock -- and it will be pleasanter to have it all over before dinner . '' `` Certainly , squire , '' said Tom Durfy ; `` we 'll be there at four . Till then , good morning , squire ; '' and he and his man walked off . The widow , in the meantime , had been left to the care of theapothecary 's boy , whose tender mercies were now , for the first time in his life , demanded towards a fainting lady ; for the poor raw country lad , having to do with a sturdy peasantry in every-day matters , had never before seen the capers cut by a lady who thinks it proper , and delicate , and becoming , to display her sensibility in a swoon ; and truly her sobs , and small screeches , and little stampings and kickings , amazed young gallipot .