It's likely that he didn't begrudge what he had paid Marshall though, because he thought he had finally found a medical person who had walked a mile in his shoes.

So fate fell-woven forward drave him,and with malice Mordred his mind hardened,saying that war was wisdom and waiting folly.‘Let their fanes be felled and their fast placesbare and broken, burned their havens,and isles immune from march of armsor Roman reign now reek to heavenin fires of vengeance! [I.18-25]

Swarms were reasonably common place in rural areas when New Zealand had a large feral bee population but few wild bees now survive due to varroa disease.

My task was a very hard one; but, as I was absolutely resolved - as my cousins saw at length that my mind was really and immutably fixed on making a just division of the property....they yielded at length.