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Now the students had returned to Oxford, the sickness had abated, and Dr. Langton had brought his daughters back to their beloved home. But the visits of John Clarke still continued to be frequent. It was but a short walk through the meadows from Cardinal College to the Bridge House.
Langton, who had 'looked in' on his way from the House, and for some time remained under the impression that they had interrupted some kind of informal rehearsal. 'Still at the theatricals, eh? he observed, as he came in. 'Go on, don't let us disturb you.
But how the bishop will like to hear that is another matter." "Yet to us it cannot but be a testimony," spoke Dr. Langton gravely, "and one which those in authority would do well to lay to heart.
'Oh, but that must be quite enough for you, Mr. Ashburn! And Mabel Langton is always such a puzzle to me. I never can quite make up my mind if she is really as sweet as she seems.
For my part, if you want the real thing, I believe there are more gentlemen than gentlewomen in the world; and Batty Langton says you may breed out the old Adam, but you'll never get rid of Eve. . . . But, bless my soul, Dicky, it's early days for you to be discussing the sex!" Dicky, however, was perfectly serious. "But I do mean what you call the real thing, papa.
"It's very low two hundred feet, I should say," said Langton behind him. "Hope he's no pills left. I wonder whether there's another. Let's have a look the other side." He had scarcely got up to cross the compartment when the rattle of a machine-gun very near broke out. "Our fellows, likely," he exclaimed excitedly, struggling with the sash, but they knew the truth almost as he spoke.
Mrs. and Miss Langton were out, he was told at the door. 'Miss Dolly was in, added Champion, to whom Caffyn was well known. 'Then I'll see Miss Dolly, said Caffyn, thinking that he might be able to pass the time until Mabel's return. 'In the morning-room is she? All right. He walked in alone, to find Dolly engaged in tearing off the postage stamp from a letter.
Beauclerk made a shrewd and judicious' remark to Mr. Langton, who, after having been for the first time in company with a well-known wit about town, was warmly admiring and praising him, 'See him again, said Beauclerk. His respect for the Hierarchy, and particularly the Dignitaries of the Church, has been more than once exhibited in the course of this work . Mr.
'Beauclerk and I, and Langton, and Lady Sydney Beauclerk, mother to our friend, were one day driving in a coach by Cuper's Gardens, which were then unoccupied. I, in sport, proposed that Beauclerk and Langton, and myself should take them; and we amused ourselves with scheming how we should all do our parts.
People say that peacocks are the laziest birds in existence. They go to rest earlier, and get up later than anything else." "Indeed!" Still grimmer silence; still slower and more halting footsteps. Presently the stranger stopped short and asked abruptly "How far are we still from Langton Terrace? Five minutes' walk ten minutes? We are more than half-way, I suppose?" "Not quite, I am afraid.
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