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Theron, with a smaller band, was also in the Uniondale and Willowmore district, approaching close to the sea in the Mossel Bay direction, but being headed off by Kavanagh. Scheepers turned in the direction of Cape Town, but swerved aside at Montagu, and moved northwards towards Touws River. So far the British had succeeded in driving and injuring, but never in destroying, the Boer bands.
"But you believe in collapses of the nerves," put in Theron, with gentle sadness, "in moral and spiritual and mental breakdowns. I remember how I was touched by the way you told me YOU suffered from them. I had to take what you said then for granted. I had had no experience of it myself. But now I know what it is." He drew a long, pathetic sigh. "Oh, DON'T I know what it is!" he repeated gloomily.
Theron knew this "debt-raiser," and had seen him at work a burly, bustling, vulgar man who took possession of the pulpit as if it were an auctioneer's block, and pursued the task of exciting liberality in the bosoms of the congregation by alternating prayer, anecdote, song, and cheap buffoonery in a manner truly sickening.
And just keep a stiff upper lip about the gas, and don't you let them jew you down a solitary cent on that sidewalk." "All right," said Theron, again, and moved reluctantly toward the hall door. When the three trustees had been shown in by the Rev. Mr. Ware, and had taken seats, an awkward little pause ensued.
Miss Madden beamed upon him, and nodded approval. "Alcibiades never turned a prettier compliment," she remarked. They went in together at this, and Theron made a note of the name. During the ensuing half-hour, the young minister followed about even more humbly than the clerks in Celia's commanding wake.
"What are you afraid of?" asked the lawyer, seeming now to be wholly at his ease again "They can't eat you." "No, they keep me too lean for that," responded Theron, with a pensive smile. "I WAS going to ask, you know, for an increase of salary, or an extra allowance. I don't see how I can go on as it is.
Even in its unfinished condition, with a bald roofing of weather-beaten boards marking on the stunted tower the place where a spire was to begin later on, it dwarfed every other edifice of the sort in the town, just as it put them all to shame in the matter of the throngs it drew, rain or shine, to its services. These facts had not heretofore been a source of satisfaction to the Rev. Theron Ware.
"Good for you!" exclaimed Theron, approvingly. Then it occurred to him to ask, "But where did you get them all? Around among our friends?" "Some few," responded Alice, with a note of hesitation in her voice. "Sister Bult gave me the verbenas, there, and the white pinks were a present from Miss Stevens. But most of them Levi Gorringe was good enough to send me from his garden."
"I have never tried since I was a little boy," said Theron, "but I think I could. If you don't mind, I should like to see." Lounging at his ease on the oriental couch, Theron experimented cautiously upon the unaccustomed tobacco, and looked at Celia with what he felt to be the confident quiet of a man of the world.
Vincent and I have been friends for many years now. We are quite alone in the world, we two much to our mutual satisfaction. You must come up and see me some time; come up and have a look over the books we were speaking of." "I am much obliged," said Theron, without enthusiasm. The thought of the doctor by himself did not attract him greatly.
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