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The scheme therefore was to touch at their islands, drop them there, proceed then further on the voyage, and then, returning the same way, resume them, if they were willing to come under instruction for baptism and return to the college. In the lack of a common language, Bishop Selwyn hoped to make them all learn English, and only communicate with one another in that.
It was late in December when, driving to Waterloo to catch the boat-train to Southampton, Selwyn was held up in the Strand by the crush of people welcoming the arrival of Red Cross trains from the front.
"I reckon he'll most stop then to hear his own voice, for he does dote so on singing, and feels so bad that he can't do better." "Singing and making melody in your hearts. You can do that now, Mrs. Blake, and with God's help, I hope to be able to do the same." "What! have you been thinking of these things too, Miss Selwyn?" "Yes.
And now as Selwyn came leisurely up the front steps, Austin, awaiting him feverishly, hastened to smooth the florid jocose mask over his features, and walked into the room, big hand extended, large bantering voice undisturbed by the tremor of a welcome which filled his heart and came near filling his eyes: "So you've stuck the poor old Government at last, have you?
An old haunter of the pump-room in Bath, who had frequently conversed with Selwyn in his visits there, meeting him one day in St James's Street, attempted to approach him with his usual familiarity. Selwyn passed him as if he had never seen him before. His old acquaintance followed him, and said, "Sir, you knew me very well in Bath."
Vanderburgh in a bewildered way. "I did not know it till this morning," Mr. King was explaining, "but our fellow-passenger, Mr. Selwyn, chose to cross over keeping his real identity unknown, and I must say I admire his taste in the matter; and anyway it was his affair and not mine." It was a long speech, and at its conclusion Mrs.
Selwyn was all very well for company, and no doubt his books were very good, but Elise Durwent would have to marry in her own station of life. 'You feel that you must go this afternoon? said the Ironmonger's daughter dismally, but with an inflection that made it more a reminder than a question.
Once he had done so, or attempted to, when Selwyn first arrived from the Philippines, and it made them both uncomfortable to the verge of profanity, but remained as a shy source of solace to them both.
"The law'll get him some day." "I think not," replied Selwyn. "You may find him close to the edge of the law, but he never steps over. He's a mighty bright business man, and he's made a heap of money." When nearing the Arcade depot, Oldham himself stepped forward. "Stopping in California long?" he asked, with some approach to geniality. "Permanently, I think," replied Bob.
Selwyn forced a laugh, then sat up on the bed's edge and looked around at the unpapered walls. "Boots you won't say to to anybody what sort of a place I've been living in " "No; but I will if you try to come back here." So Selwyn stood up and began to remove his dressing-gown, and Lansing dragged out the little flat trunk and began to pack it.
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