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I could bear the parched mouth and the throbbing brain if this pulse did not run so fast." "Get away wi' thee, thou dummel-heed. What fagot has got hold on thy fancy now?" There was only the swollen gland wanted to make the dread symptoms complete. Garth went back to the anvil once more. His eyes rolled in his head. They grew as red as the iron that he was welding.
But Miles seemed to find them of extraordinary interest, for he subjected the closely written sheets to a first, and second, and even a third perusal. Then he replaced the elastic band round them and shut them away in a drawer, locking the latter carefully. A couple of days later, Garth Trent received a note from Herrick, asking him to come and see him.
This was the only part of the character in which it had been possible, with her physical peculiarities, to produce an imitation of Miss Garth; and here the resemblance was perfect.
Garth was entranced by the Bishop's matter-of-fact stories of his long journeys through the wilderness during the delightful summers, and in the rigorous winters; and the upshot was, the Bishop asked him to join him in his forthcoming tour of the diocese, which was to start from Miwasa Landing on the first of August.
The tempest of emotion in her arms was hushed to rest. The eternal voice of perfect love had whispered: "Peace, be still"; and there was a great calm. At last Garth lifted his head. "Always? Always together?" he said. "Ah, that will be 'perpetual light!"
Wilson Garth, not James Wilson, was the man's name." "And he was Mrs. Garth's husband and the father of Joe?" "The same, I think." Sim seemed to stagger under the shock of a discovery that had been slow to dawn upon him. "How did it come, Ralph, that you brought him here when you came home from the wars? Everything seems, someways, to hang on that."
Even when Caleb Garth was prosperous, the Vincys were on condescending terms with him and his wife, for there were nice distinctions of rank in Middlemarch; and though old manufacturers could not any more than dukes be connected with none but equals, they were conscious of an inherent social superiority which was defined with great nicety in practice, though hardly expressible theoretically.
Pope afterwards declared himself convinced that Garth died in the communion of the Church of Rome, having been privately reconciled. It is observed by Lowth that there is less distance than is thought between scepticism and Popery; and that a mind wearied with perpetual doubt, willingly seeks repose in the bosom of an infallible Church. His poetry has been praised at least equally to its merit.
Could you stand it?" he demanded almost sternly. "I am perfectly well and strong," answered Natalie. "That is quite so, happily," said Mrs. Mabyn. "Otherwise, I would not hear of it for a moment." "If the Bishop's wife can stand it, certainly I can," said Natalie. "But she is obliged to do it," said Garth. "So am I!" said Natalie quickly. There was an awkward pause.
Garth, coming round unwillingly to the general opinion. "I almost wish we were Papists, and I had a convent to put her in to-morrow." One of Mr. Marrable's servants entered the theater as that desperate aspiration escaped the governess. She instantly sent the man behind the scene with a message: "Miss Vanstone has done her part in the rehearsal; request her to come here and sit by me."
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