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'There is one thing to be done, Eva, and the sooner the better. 'Do you mean that old Mr. Timmis must give up his shop to my father? Never! never! 'I mean, said Clive quietly, 'that we must marry without your father's consent. She shook her head slowly and sadly, relapsing into calmness. 'You shake your head, Eva, but it must be so. 'I can't, my dear.
Without false modesty, she introduced herself to one or two of the men who had surprised her at her work, and then quietly departed just as they were sitting down to table and Sarah had brought in the hot tea-cakes. Clive Timmis saw her only for a moment, but from that moment she was his one thought.
Timmis to the effect that Ezra Brunt had remarked at the Turk's Head that 'th' old leech was only sticking out for every brass farthing he could get. The report was untrue, but Mr. Timmis believed it, and from that moment Ezra Brunt's chances of obtaining the chemist's shop vanished completely.
'If you don't mind, I should like to walk along with you, Clive Timmis said to her one Sunday evening in the porch of the Bethesda Chapel. 'I shall be glad, she answered at once; 'father isn't here, and I'm all alone. Ezra Brunt was indeed seldom there, counting in the matter of attendance at chapel among what were called 'the weaker brethren.
'Brother, replied the aged servant of God, unmoved, 'if my shop is in truth a stumbling-block in this solemn hour, you shall have it. Ezra Brunt was staggered. 'I believe! I believe! he cried. 'Praise God! said the chemist, with majestic joy. Three months afterwards Eva Brunt and Clive Timmis were married.
When George Christopher Timmis buried his wife, Ezra Brunt, as a near neighbour, was asked to the funeral. 'The cortège will move at 1.30, ran the printed invitation, and at 1.15 Brunt's carriage was decorously in place behind the hearse and the two mourning-coaches.
Timmis, squeezed in between those massive luxurious façades of stone which Ezra Brunt soon afterwards erected. The pharmaceutical business of Mr. Timmis was not a very large one, and, fiscally, Ezra Brunt could have swallowed him at a meal and suffered no inconvenience; but in that the aged chemist had lived on just half his small income for some fifty years past, his position was impregnable.
One of these is a long original letter from Milton himself to his friend Carlo Dati, the Florentine, with the latter's reply; there are also three receipts or releases signed by Milton's three daughters, Anne Milton, Mary Milton, and Deborah Clarke, a bond from Elizabeth Milton, his widow, to one Randle Timmis, and several other agreements and assignments, with the autographs of attesting witnesses.
'The love of God compasseth all things. Only believe. He looked up and saw the venerable face and long white beard of George Christopher Timmis. Ezra Brunt shrank away, embittered and ashamed. 'I cannot, he murmured with difficulty. 'The love of God is all-powerful. 'Will it make you part with that bit o' property, think you? said Ezra Brunt, with a kind of despairing ferocity.
'Oh! how can I tell you? she burst out passionately. 'Perhaps I did wrong. Perhaps I ought to have warned him earlier said to him, "Father, Clive Timmis is courting me!" Ugh! He cannot bear to be surprised about anything. But yet he must have known.... It was all an accident, Clive all an accident. He saw you leaving the shop yesterday.
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