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`` Mr. Austyn ! '' `` Yes ; I found him by the roadside not far from Monk 's cottage , where he had been visiting , looking sadly at a spring-cart , which the owner thereof , one of the Rood Warren farmers , had managed to upset and damage considerably . He was giving Austyn a lift home when the spill took place . So , remembering your hankering and Lindy 's for the society of this young Ritualist , I persuaded him that instead of tramping six miles through the wet he should come here and put up for the night with us ; so , leaving the farmer free to get home on his pony , I clinched the matter by promising to send him back to-morrow in time for his eight o'clock service . '' `` Oh dear ! I wish I had known he was coming . I would have ordered a dinner he would like . ''