Whitaker's Dukedom

Excerpt from Whitaker's Dukedom

Not only was the failure to borrow the five hundred dollars rankling in James Whitaker's heart, but also the grudging and niggardly hospitality he had received from his uncle. Robert Unwin had welcomed him with a glum coldness and given him cold bacon and bread and dripping and tea for supper, and cold bacon and bread and dripping and tea for breakfast. It made no difference to James that this was his thrifty, uncle's perpetual fare. There were many eatable lambs in his uncle's fields, many eatable and certainly egg-laying chickens in his farmyard, many pans of cream in his dairy and James Whitaker felt that this was indeed shabby treatment to accord to one's only kinsman, the son, too, of one's only benefactor. But he had received the refusal to lend the five hundred dol lars and the niggardly hospitality with no display of the anger he felt, for, after all, he was his uncle's natural heir; and he did not wish to endanger his possible, even probable, inheritance.

Now, late in the afternoon, that cold bacon and that dripping rankled in his breast almost more bitterly, than his failure to borrow the five hundred dollars. He trudged along at loggerheads with fortune.

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