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The substitution of baths for a chapel at Bartles obviously gave him more amusement than he liked to show; he chuckled inwardly, with a sober face. 'What has Mallard got to say to that? he asked me aside. I answered that it met with your husband's entire approval.
"You remember," pursued Miriam, leaning forward on a table by which she sat, and playing with a twisted piece of paper, "that I once had the silly desire to build a chapel at Bartles." She reddened in hearing the words upon her own lips so strange a sound they had after all this time. "I remember you talked of doing so," replied Eleanor, with her usual quiet good-nature.
In the Bartles newspaper there had appeared, from time to time, enigmatic paragraphs, which Mrs.
A blessed form of vanity, compared with certain things one remembers!" "She looks as if she had by no means conquered peace of mind," observed Mallard, after another silence. "I don't suppose she has. I don't even know whether she's on the way to it." "How about the chapel at Bartles?" Spence shook his head and laughed, and the dialogue came to an end. The next morning all started for Rome.
No; she was uncomfortable, and content that others should be so, for discomfort's sake. It fretted her that the Sunday in Naples could not be as universally dolorous as it was at Bartles. It revolted her to hear happy voices in a country abandoned to heathendom.
"I'm afraid the thought of him troubles her a good deal." "She looks ill." "Yes; we are uneasy about her," said Spence. Then, with a burst of impatience: "There's no getting her mind away from that pestilent Bartles. What do you think she is projecting now? It appears that the Dissenters of Bartles are troubled concerning their chapel; it isn't large enough.
This lady had not scrupled to state it as a fact in her certain knowledge that Mrs. Baske was become a Papist. To this end, it seemed, was the suspicion of Bartles mainly directed the Scarlet Woman throned by the Mediterranean had made a victim of her who was once a light in the re-reformed faith. That was the reason, said Mrs.
Miriam had decided that in a day or two she would go down to Bartles; not to stay there, but merely to see her relative, Mrs. Fletcher, and Redbeck House. Before leaving London, she must visit Reuben; she had promised Cecily to do so without delay. This same evening she posted a card to her brother, asking him to be at home to see her early the next morning.
However, I see that you can hardly be expected to build them a chapel. Let us think a moment. Are there any public baths in Bartles?" "There were none when I lived there." "The proverb says that after godliness comes cleanliness. Why should you not devote to the establishing of decent baths what you meant to set apart for the chapel? How does it strike you?" She delayed a moment; then
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