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They had been reelected, as usual, at the recent town-meeting. Mr. Errol, who had also been reelected, had returned but had not yet issued the certificate or conducted the examination. "Send for them, have them here at once," commanded Mr. Worthington, without listening to this. "If you take my advice, you will do nothing of the kind," said Mr.
"Errol Banneker," said Io, amused in spite of her annoyance, "you are possessed of a familiar devil who betrays other people's inner thoughts to you. Success is a species of religion to me, I suppose." "And you are making converts, like all true enthusiasts. Tell, tell me. What kind of success?" "Oh, power. Money. Position. Being somebody." "I'm somebody here all right.
His alacrity to do this was explained when he told her that he wanted to drop into the Rectory and persuade the rector to bring Dot that night to see the fun, to which plan Mrs. Errol accorded her ready approval, and even undertook to help with the persuading, to Bertie's immense gratification.
He and Bertie never got on. P'r'aps it was my fault. P'r'aps he inherited some of my antagonism. The Lord knows I tried to suppress it, but somehow it was always there." "Dear Mrs. Errol!" Anne murmured softly. "Not one woman in a thousand would have done as much." "Oh, you mustn't say that, dearie. I'm a very poor specimen. I gave him what advantages I could, but I never loved him.
"Do you think Nap would let you stop fighting?" she said. He smiled again faintly. "I suppose if he were here I should subsist on his vitality for a little while. But the end would be the same. Even he can't work miracles." "Don't you believe in miracles?" Anne said. He looked at her interrogatively. "Mr. Errol," she said, "I am going to remind you of something that I think you have forgotten.
I think that surprised him some, for he began to stutter, and then of course I had the advantage. And I used it." "It must have been real edifying for Lady Carfax," drawled Nap. Mrs. Errol turned upon him. "I'm no bigger a fool than I look, Nap Errol. Lady Carfax didn't hear a word. We had it out in the park. I left the motor half way on purpose, and made his high mightiness walk down with me.
It touched her, even though, had the choice been hers, she would have done without it. Lucas also urged her in his kindly fashion not to lead a hermit's existence. Mrs. Errol was insistent upon the point. "Don't you do it, dear," was her exhortation. "There may not be much good to be got out of society, I'll admit. But it's one better than solitude. Don't you shut yourself up and fret.
He remembered the time when Isaac D. Worthington had done him a great wrong. "You are dismissed," he said, "because Mr. Worthington has come home, and because the two other members of the committee are dogs and cowards." Mr. Graves never minced matters when he began, and his voice shook with passion. "If Mr. Errol had examined you, and you had your certificate, it might have been different.
"'He knows about it all He knows He knows," she quoted softly. And Capper went his way, taking with him the memory of a woman who still ploughed her endless furrow, but with a heart at peace. "My!" said Mrs. Errol. "Isn't he just dear?" There was a cooing note in her deep voice.
Errol remarked in her deep voice, that yet compassed the incomparable Yankee twang, that she guessed she wasn't afraid of any man that breathed, none of those who heard the bold assertion ventured to contradict her. Lucas Errol was entertaining a large house-party, and the great hall was full of guests, most of whom had just returned from the day's sport.
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