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It becomes a base and vicious avocation, does angling, when it ceases to be what Sir Henry Wotton loved to call it "an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent; a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness, and a begetter of habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it!"
She did not need him in capacity of attendant or diverter these days, and it was clear that in any other capacity he embarrassed her. But he was not deterred because of that. "You are coming to church, remember," he told her on Sunday morning. Molly did not even play at archness with him now; she looked timid. And at the hour she went, and Alexina with her.
She had her lapses, her moments of weakness and outcry, her periods of despair, during the ensuing days, for days did ensue, and nothing was seen or heard of the missing one, but of these Larcher was not often a witness. Edna Hill developed new resources as an encourager, a diverter, and an unfailing optimist in regard to the outcome.
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