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Anticipating her husband's commands, Diana was ever ready to bear him company, to share his engagements and amusements, walking, riding, shooting, fishing, playing billiards, cribbage, bowls, racket, backgammon, draughts, for hours on a stretch; to go abroad attending the market and doing banking business at Market Hesketh, dining out with the Vicar or with any country host save Mr. Baring Mrs.
"Ride for half a mile and you'll find a good one." "I thank you, sir." I could hold myself in no longer, but pushed the Vicar aside and ran out into the road. The horsemen had already turned their faces towards the inn, and walked along slowly, as though they were weary. "Good-night," cried the Vicar whether to them or to me or to all creation I know not. The door closed on him.
I've just come from old Mother Warboys' cottage." "And how is the old witch?" "Ah, poor, prejudiced old soul, much the same as ever. I'm afraid she is beyond alteration, but her grandson was there." "Humph! And he's beyond mending too," said Uncle Richard gravely. "Ah, there's the rub," said the Vicar, crossing his legs, and clasping his hands about the upper knee.
And if they still sought they had not yet found; and so there was a new spring of hope in her heart. "Yes, truly, they are searching," she murmured, and forgot the Vicar and all else. He tried to induce her to go back home with him, but she would not move.
The first who advanced to the platform and took the oath was the Signor di Raselli, the father of Nina. Others of the lesser nobility followed his example. The presence of the Pope's Vicar induced the aristocratic; the fear of the people urged the selfish; the encouragement of shouts and gratulations excited the vain. The space between Adrian and Rienzi was made clear.
What business have we to be truce-making on our own account? The war is not ours, but God's! Robert's eyes had kindled. He was about to indulge himself in such a quick passage of arms as all such natures as his delight in, when his look travelled past the gaunt figure of the Ritualist vicar to his wife. A sudden pang smote, silenced him.
Finally, the priests sang a choral hymn to the Sun-god Ra, and to his son and vicar on earth, the king.
"I should say that for that type his face was almost faultless. I wondered where he got it from. Sir Beverley is patrician too, but in a different way." She stopped to bow to a tall, gaunt lady at the side of the road. "That is Miss Whalley. Didn't you see her? I expect she has just come from the Vicarage. She was going to discuss the scheme for the Christmas decorations with the Vicar."
They had gone over that the new vicar might inspect his church, and be introduced to the squire, and were not expected back before dinner. Mr Harding rambled out by himself, and strolled, as was his wont at Plumstead, about the lawn and round the church; and as he did so, the two sisters naturally fell into conversation about Barchester. There was not much sisterly confidence between them.
What was there, too, behind that gate of bronze which he saw before him that sacred portal by which all the kingdoms of the world communicated with the kingdom of heaven, whose august vicar had secluded himself behind those lofty, silent walls?
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