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Langton's death had reached him, and suggested the scheme, which circumstances seemed to render practicable, but the fatal termination of which has been related. The body was buried where it had fallen, close by the huge, gray, moss- grown fragment of rock, a monument on which centuries can work little change.
"Ay; but she had a white hand, a small white hand," said the student, piqued at Edward's contemptuous opinion of his powers of observation; "as white as Ellen Langton's." He paused; for the lover was offended by the profanity of the comparison, as was made evident by the blood that rushed to his brow.
He dreamt that he was preaching Langton's views on the Sermon on the Mount in the pulpit of St. John's, and that the Canon, from his place beside the credence-table within the altar-rails, was shouting at him to stop. In his dream he persisted, however, until that irate dignitary seized the famous and massive offertory-dish by his side and hurled it in the direction of the pulpit.
I was so much hurt, and had my pride so much roused, that I kept away from him for a week; and, perhaps, might have kept away much longer, nay, gone to Scotland without seeing him again, had not we fortunately met and been reconciled. To such unhappy chances are human friendships liable. On Friday, May 8, I dined with him at Mr. Langton's.
'Having spent an evening at Mr. Langton's with the Reverend Dr. Parr, he was much pleased with the conversation of that learned gentleman; and after he was gone, said to Mr. Langton, "Sir, I am obliged to you for having asked me this evening. Parr is a fair man. I do not know when I have had an occasion of such free controversy.
Both swimming on a few strokes more, Owen found that his feet also could touch the sand, and that he could stand up with his head out of water. They waded on; the depth decreased but slowly, but still it did decrease. Langton's shoulders rose above the surface, he could now assist Owen.
There was not a man who felt capable of accomplishing the feat. "If I may go with Langton I will, sir," exclaimed Owen. "I never have swum as much as two miles, but I know that I can keep in the water a long time, and I think I can do it." The captain hesitated. "I accept Langton's offer, but I would rather that an older person than you are should go.
Let nothing be wanting in such a case. Dr. Drummond , I see, is superseded. His father would have grieved; but he lived to obtain the pleasure of his son's election, and died before that pleasure was abated. 'Langton's lady has brought him a girl, and both are well; I dined with him the other day.
Will you tell this sad news to Dolly and Colin, and ask Fräulein to keep them with her till bedtime? I can't bear to see them just yet. Mr. Langton's decorous concern did not interfere with his appetite, and Mrs.
Better to suffer the weariness of dread and doubt and longing for Percival. But Percival would have been astonished if he could have seen the darkly heroic guise in which he reigned over Sissy Langton's dreams. There is nothing like a wide horizon to give a boy aspirations nothing like a hill-farm to give him hope especially the hope of leaving it.
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