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He knew McKinstry's thought of that little girl well enough, but he held the child-hearted man's secret tenderly and charily in his hand. Paul Blecker did talk slang and assert himself; but every impulse in him was clean, delicate, liberal. So, Paul remaining silent, the Captain took heart of grace, going down the street, and ventured back to the Gurney question.
Gurney did not recover so rapidly; there seemed to be no outlet to his feelings nothing to ease his burdened heart. He had given his business into the hands of his clerks, and had concluded to sell out and permanently retire from active life.
Gurney, "do you think it would be in conformity with sound wisdom to engage him after the confession he has made?" "Yes, James, I really do, and one of the strongest reasons for my thinking so is because of that confession.
Gurney himself was much too fair a reasoner to avoid the collection of instantiae contradictoraes, examples in which the hallucination occurs, but does not coincide with any crisis whatever in the life of the absent person who seems to be present. Of these cases, Dr. Hibbert could find only one on record, in the Mercure Gallant, January, 1690.
She looked at him with dreamy eyes, her dark skin turned a copper bronze in the moonlight, her black hair irradiated with a strange, luminous grayish blue. Forbes Gurney, alive to beauty in all its forms, ventured finally to touch her hand she of Knowles, Cross, and Cowperwood and she thrilled from head to toe. This boy was so sweet.
In the ordinary ministry, by teaching the young by a godly conversation by visiting and praying with the sick and afflicted by encouraging the inquirers and directing their way to the kingdom of heaven, in these important duties there appears to be neither male nor female in Christ Jesus all are equal. John Bunyan would have united to a great degree with John Gurney in these sentiments.
Lacking this, the development of character has a downward tendency. It does not make pleasant reading, but I have not told an impossible tale. But who knows "how the other half lives?" The question is Do you care to know if Dexie has chosen her life as wisely as she might have done? Would her married life have been happier if she had married Lancy Gurney?
Gurney, "but when thee feels like censuring her, just remember that she has been accustomed to see wine on her father's table ever since she was a girl. It is the custom which should be condemned, and not poor, foolish innocents like Mary Fulton." As there was a lull in the conversation which we reported in the last chapter, after Mrs.
Looks were interchanged amongst some of the young people, and, hoping to make Dexie feel vexed, Gussie said, "Lancy Gurney has only to whistle, and Dexie will run like a dog at a call."
Fry and Priscilla and Joseph John Gurney were then a set of dashing young people, dressed in gay riding habits and scarlet boots, as Mrs. Fry told us afterwards, and riding about the country to balls and gaieties of all sorts.
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