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"Heaven forbid, with this load!" said they. "The place I mean is that one yonder." He was getting so romantically attached to Christminster that, like a young lover alluding to his mistress, he felt bashful at mentioning its name again. He pointed to the light in the sky hardly perceptible to their older eyes. "Yes.
But, oh no poor or'nary child there never was any sprawl on thy side of the family, and never will be!" "Where is this beautiful city, Aunt this place where Mr. Phillotson is gone to?" asked the boy, after meditating in silence. "Lord! you ought to know where the city of Christminster is. Near a score of miles from here.
They walked along the street till they stood before one of the great palpitating centres of Christminster life, the inn wherein he formerly had responded to the challenge to rehearse the Creed in Latin now a popular tavern with a spacious and inviting entrance, which gave admittance to a bar that had been entirely renovated and refitted in modern style since Jude's residence here.
"Yer powers wasn't enough to carry 'ee through?" "Don't answer them any more!" entreated Sue. "I don't think I like Christminster!" murmured little Time mournfully, as he stood submerged and invisible in the crowd.
As it would be necessary that he should continue for a time to work at his trade while reading up Divinity, which he had neglected at Christminster for the ordinary classical grind, what better course for him than to get employment at the further city, and pursue this plan of reading?
Judge, then, of his horror when he found that his eldest son, 'a scholar at Christminster College, Oxbridge, had run into debt for many hundreds of pounds. Where to turn? The father was too proud to borrow of the neighbourly nobleman who in Oxbridge days had been his 'chum. Nor had the father ever practised the art of writing.
You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest. And there's a street in the place the main street that ha'n't another like it in the world. I should think I did know a little about Christminster!" By this time the horses had recovered breath and bent to their collars again.
Perhaps if he prayed, the wish to see Christminster might be forwarded. People said that, if you prayed, things sometimes came to you, even though they sometimes did not. He had read in a tract that a man who had begun to build a church, and had no money to finish it, knelt down and prayed, and the money came in by the next post.
More angry with Jude for demeaning her by coming there than for dereliction of duty, she rated him primarily from that point of view, and only secondarily from a moral one. "Not that you should have let the birds eat what Farmer Troutham planted. Of course you was wrong in that. Jude, Jude, why didstn't go off with that schoolmaster of thine to Christminster or somewhere?
"This young man was discharged from his work at Christminster for drunkenness and blasphemy in public-houses, and he has come here to live, entirely to be near her." However, they remained stolid and motionless, and the mistress left the room to inquire from her superiors what was to be done.
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