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Latimer was no theologian; but he was a pulpit orator of extraordinary power, an enthusiastic if erratic moralist, who had suffered for his own freely expressed opinions in the past and shown scant consideration for false teachers a quixotic but heroic figure.
On her side, so far as Philippa knew, she had no relations; and her aunts on the father's side, the Lady Latimer, the Lady de l'Estrange, and the Lady de Lisle, never took the least notice of her when they visited the castle. And then came up the thought "Who am I? How is it that nobody cares to own me? There must be a reason. What is the reason?"
"It is not so strange that it should come to that," he said. "I seem to know her so well. I think," there was a look of sharp pain on his face "I think I know the pitiful childlike suffering her dying eyes held." And the man actually shuddered a little. "I know it I know it!" Latimer cried, and he let his forehead drop upon his hands and sat staring at the carpet.
Latimer, was very kind to her from the outset, and she enjoyed all the Ghantala gaieties under her protection and patronage. Not till Mrs. Latimer was taken ill and had to leave hurriedly for the Hills did it dawn upon Hope, after nearly eight happy months, that her position was one of considerable isolation, and that this might, under certain circumstances, become a matter for regret.
"Latimer, old boy," he said to me in a tone of compassionate cordiality, "what a pity it is you don't have a run with the hounds now and then! The finest thing in the world for low spirits!" "Low spirits!" I thought bitterly, as he rode away; "that is the sort of phrase with which coarse, narrow natures like yours think to describe experience of which you can know no more than your horse knows.
Raoul Latimer was there, a sneer upon his lips, a malevolent light in his eyes, which deepened as they rested upon Llewelyn, whilst Arthyn watched the twin brothers with a strange look in her glowing eyes, her lips parted, her white teeth just showing between, her whole expression one of tense expectancy and sympathy. Once Llewelyn glanced up and met the look she bent on him.
"If he would consent to give up trapping this winter, I would willingly pay him more than he will get out of any pelts he might get. And life here would be much easier for him without being too civilized," said Mr. Starr. "Well, we'll let him try it for a time and perhaps he will like the children enough to wish to remain for the season," suggested Mr. Latimer.
Wiley were added to the dinner-party at Fairfield that evening, and Lady Latimer gave Miss Fairfax a quiet reminder that she might have to be on her guard, for the rector was as deficient in tact as ever. And so he proved. He first announced that the fever had broken out again at Littlemire and Marsh-End, after the shortest lull he recollected, thus taking away Mr.
She wrote to Lady Latimer, and to her mother more at length. They were disappointed, but not surprised. "Now they will prove what she is a downright good girl, not an atom of selfishness about her," said Mr. Carnegie to his wife with tender triumph. "Yes, God bless her!
I believe my father read my thoughts in my eye; for, pulling out his watch, he said; 'Half-past four, Alan you should be in your own room by this time Birrenswork will excuse you. Our visitor nodded carelessly, and I had no longer any pretence to remain. But as I left the room, I heard this magnate of Nithesdale distinctly mention the name of Latimer.
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