88 WILD DICK AND 69 his debts, and the other open upon his credits,, he may look down upon the clear estate of Mr. Wild, with infinite contempt. Squire Hawk had a very pretty daughter ; and there was no man, in the village, more obsequious to Richard. Mr. MTild always treated the Squire with the respect, due to an older man, but he came no nearer. He had never crossed the fatal threshold of his shop, since his return. He considered Squire Hawk and the Deacon as the prime ministers of the ruin of his parents ; but he did- not presume, by any act of hostility to either^ to assume the high office of him, to whom vengeance belongs. Shortly after this unexpected accession of property,. Miss Hepsy Hawk astonished the parish with an expensive salmon-colored silk, and a new navarino; and she used to linger an unnecessary length of time, at the door of her father’s pew, till Mr. Wild came down the aisle ; and then she would go wriggling and fidgetting out by his side as close as she could decently get. But, after a while, finding that she could not attract his attention, she gave up the experiment’.
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