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It was the Ewold money that gave John Wingfield his start. With it he bought the store in which he began as a clerk. He lost a good part of the Ewold fortune later in one of his enterprises that did not turn out well. But all this is trifling beside what is to come. "He went on to his great commercial career. I, poor fool, was an egoist, too. I tried to paint. I had taste, but no talent.
As he will hereafter be brought more closely to our notice, it is now only necessary to add, that he had just been presented to the vicarage of St Ewold by Dr Grantly, in whose gift as archdeacon the living lay. St Ewold's is a parish lying just without the city of Barchester.
Certainly, Jack must remain until his wound had healed and his strength had returned. And where would he go? He could not camp out on the desert. As Jasper Ewold had the most commodious bungalow it seemed natural that any wounded stranger should be taken there. The idea chilled her as an insupportable intrusion. Jack hesitated a moment.
And your uniform, sir" Jasper Ewold took in the cowboy outfit with a sweeping glance which warmed with the picturesque effect "it's a great improvement on the regulation; fit for free delivery in Little Rivers, where nobody studies to be unconventional in any vanity of mistaking that for originality, but nobody need be conventional." He took some of the cargo in his own hands.
There was a rustle and an exchange of satisfied glances and a chorus of approval like an indrawing of breath. "First, I will see the Doge," Jack added; "and then I shall go to the house." Galway, Dr. Patterson, Worther, and three or four others went on with him toward the Ewold bungalow.
Wrath of God's bony face was pointed lugubriously toward the door; Jag Ear was wiggling his fragment of ear. "And Moses on the mountain-top says that you stay!" declared Jasper Ewold. Jack looked at Mary. She had not spoken yet and he waited on her word. "Please do!" she said. "Father wants someone to talk to."
His father waited in observant comprehension. Convulsively, Jack straightened with desperation and all the impassioned pleading to Mary on the pass was in his eyes. "But the thing that I cannot help the transcendent thing, not of logic, not of Little Rivers' difficulties how am I to give that up?" he cried. "Miss Ewold, you mean?" "Yes!" "Jack, I know! I understand!
She could only pass the, blame back to the Eternal Painter's oversight in their introduction. "Jack Wingfield!" said Jack, on his own account. "Jack Wingfield!" repeated Jasper Ewold, tasting the name. A flicker of surprise followed by a flicker of drawn intensity ran over his features, and he studied Jack in a long glance, which he masked just in time to save it from being a stare.
Before they all retired it was settled that the whole party should drive over on the following day to inspect the parsonage at St Ewold. The three clergymen were to discuss dilapidations, and the two ladies were to lend their assistance in suggesting such changes as might be necessary for a bachelor's abode. Accordingly, soon after breakfast, the carriage was at the door.
"Who would do it? Jasper Ewold? Jim Galway?" Prather demanded. "What these men need is a leader. They don't realize what I am doing for them. Do they think I want to put in ten years out here for nothing? For every dollar that they make for me they are going to make one for themselves. That's the rule of prosperity. I am not robbing them.
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