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Meanwhile, the Vicar, interrupted in conversation with the blacksmith, was amazed to see distressful stranded fish leaping out of a few residual pools, and heaped green weed in the bed of the stream, where ten minutes before there had been eight feet and more of clear cool water. After that, horrified at his own consequences, young Caddles fled his home for two days and nights.
"Or Annie Glassbound?" said the other, with the huge virile guffaw of a young man whose voice has only recently broken. "Sally Glue is eighty-five," explained the vicar, "and Annie Glassbound is well a young lady of extremely generous proportions. And not quite right, you know. Not quite right here." He tapped his brow. "Generous proportions!" said the eldest son, and the guffaws were renewed.
Indeed, the Vicar indeed, my husband has already received a letter from the District Secretary of the Association asking him to undertake this work. In time, too, no doubt as Government makes better provision that work will grow less and less. But we have not even arrived at it yet. Until it is set going these poor women and children may be short of money or the food that money buys.
"Pooh, pooh!" ejaculated the doctor, with his hearty laugh. "Call this fine day too warm; you ought to be ashamed of yourself! You need not any of you walk. Go and put on your bonnets, and tell the vicar, and I'll cram you all into my old shanderadan and drive you down."
Rightly or wrongly, there was a 'movement' in the parish and the outlying hamlets: and thus it was that the curate, struggling through the mire, carried in his face the expression of hard work. Work, work, work; the vicar, his three curates and band of lay helpers, worked incessantly.
Or yet again: the eighteenth century will present pictures that seem utterly opposite, and yet seem singularly typical of the time: the sack of Versailles and the "Vicar of Wakefield"; the pastorals of Watteau and the dynamite speeches of Danton. With these epochs it is not altogether impossible to say that some such form of words is a key.
"Seems like it," said the vicar, laughing. Then seriously, "Yes, thank heaven, I feel quite myself again." "That's good," said Uncle Richard. "I am very glad." "I know you are. And oh, Brandon, you can't think how glad I am to get back to the dear old place again. My garden looks delightful; and yours?" "Capital." "But, my dear fellow, what in the world are you doing with the old mill.
Having thus resolved he came back to breakfast and read Mr. Quickenham's letter aloud to his wife and Mary Lowther. "Glebe!" said the Vicar's wife. "Do you mean that it is part of your own land?" asked Mary. "Exactly that," said the Vicar. "And that old thief of a Marquis has given away what belongs to us?" said Mrs. Fenwick. "He has given away what did not belong to himself," said the Vicar.
One man is Rector of Plumstead, and the other is Vicar of Framley. But it is no good arguing that. I want you to take to Lucy Robarts. I have come to you on purpose to ask it of you as a favour." "Do you mean as your wife, Ludovic?" "Yes; as my wife." "Am I to understand that you are are engaged to her?" "Well, I cannot say that I am not actually engaged to her.
Howard became aware that the Vicar must have told the Doctor the news about his inheritance, and was subtly flattered at being treated by him with the empressement reserved for squires. Jack came in he had been shooting all afternoon and told Howard he was improving. "I shall catch you up," he said. He seemed frankly amused at the idea of Howard having spent the afternoon with Maud.
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