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He laughed again, and threw back his head to look up at the sketch of the donkey. "There were days when I couldn't look at that thing couldn't face it. But I forced myself to put it here; and now it's cured me cured me. That's the reason why I don't dabble any more, my dear Rickham; or rather Stroud himself is the reason."
For once perhaps the only time that ever such a thing happened in this world hope and expectation were not disappointed. Wilton seated himself by the side of Laura, the postilion cracked his whip, which was then as common in England as it is now in France, the horses went forward, and the wheels rolling through the little street of High Halstow, were soon upon the road to Stroud.
Instead of tump-lines the man used his sash, and the woman a blanket knotted loosely together at the ends. The details of their costumes were interesting in combination of jeans and buckskin, broadcloth and blanket, stroud and a material evidently made from the strong white sacking in which flour intended for frontier consumption is always packed.
Retiring to his family mansion of Whitminster, in Gloucestershire, on the banks of the Stroud, he employed himself in making that stream navigable to its junction with the Severn, in improving his buildings, and in ornamenting his grounds, which lay pleasantly in the rich vale of Berkeley.
"I like to fancy that Stroud himself would have given it to me, if he'd been able to say what he thought that day." And, in answer to a question I put half-mechanically "Begin again?" he flashed out. "When the one thing that brings me anywhere near him is that I knew enough to leave off?" He stood up and laid his hand on my shoulder with a laugh.
We shall first go to Cliffe, which will be on our road, and, indeed, I believe that for some distance Albert's lands join mine. Then we shall go on to my castle it sounds absurd, doesn't it, father? and doubtless we shall be able to stay in Hoo, or if not, 'tis but two or three miles to Stroud, where we are sure to find good lodging."
A single circumstance will illustrate the widely diverse sources from which donations are received, as well as the great disparity in amount. Jan. 17, 1854. From S. R. and E. R., two poor factory girls, near Stroud, 1s. 7d. This day I also received the promise that there should be paid to me, for the work of the Lord in my hands, £5,207, to be disposed of as I might consider best.
Waddington was a little disturbed by this ready acquiescence. "Mind you, it isn't going to end here, in Wyck. I shall start it in Wyck first; then I shall take it straight to the big towns, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Nailsworth, Stroud. We'll set 'em going till we've got a branch in every town and every village in the county." He thought: "That ought to settle him."
She thought it the surest way of proclaiming his greatness of forcing it on a purblind public. And at the moment I was the fashionable painter." "Ah, poor Stroud as you say. Was that his history?" "That was his history. She believed in him, gloried in him or thought she did. But she couldn't bear not to have all the drawing-rooms with her.
In all probability these poor boys, who are to be hung for stealing, never dreamed that death was the legal penalty of the crime. Stroud, in his Sketch of the Laws of Slavery, page 100, thus comments on this monstrous barbarity.
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