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"He said that all the other boys were regular gipsies. He should not have said that. My aunt laughed, but she didn't like it, of course, and my cousins were angry. Uncle was a farmer farmers are not gipsies. It is wrong to hurt people." Ashurst wanted to take her hand and give it a squeeze, but he only answered: "Quite right, Megan.
"I ought to have considered," he went on, looking at her anxiously, "that in your exhausted state it would be a shock to hear that your friends were going so far away; though Europe isn't so very far, Lois. Of course they'll come and tell you all about it before they go; probably they had their own reasons for not doing it before they left Ashurst, your health, perhaps.
About twenty yards away the chase ended, and the two stood fronting each other, not noticing the stranger in the grass the boy pressing on, the girl fending him off. Ashurst could see her face, angry, disturbed; and the youth's who would have thought that red-faced yokel could look so distraught! And painfully affected by that sight, he jumped up. They saw him then.
"If you had seen as much of him as we have, I think that you would have no reason to find fault with him." "Birds of a feather flock together," muttered Ashurst, as he turned away. Langton heard the remark, but took no notice of it. Owen had again a good deal to endure from Ashurst, and his temper was sorely tried. Often a retort rose to his lips, though he refrained from uttering it.
Denner continued, "no ah, if I can so express it timidity." "None," responded Mr. Dale. "And I judge he has seen a great deal of the world," said Mr. Denner; "yet he appears to be satisfied with Ashurst, and I have sometimes thought, Henry, that Ashurst is not, as it were, gay."
"She's your niece, too, Adele," he interrupted. But Mrs. Dale did not pause "back to her husband. You ought to have taken her yesterday morning. It is probably all over Ashurst by this time!" "But you forget," objected Dr. Howe, "he won't let her come; you can't change his views by saying Helen must go back." "But what does it matter to her what his views are?" said Mrs. Dale.
When prayers were ended, however, and he was sitting in his library alone, he said with a subdued glee, "That is the way to do it, the one I see first!" And Mr. Denner went to bed with a quiet mind, and the peace which follows the decision of a momentous question. The cold that winter was more persistent and severe in the mountains than down in Ashurst.
"One Ben Ashurst, who said few good things, though admired for many, told Lord Chesterfield once that he was like a stunted giant, which was a humorous idea and really apposite." His portraits do not by any means bear out the common descriptions of his personal appearance.
"What's the matter? Dick Forsythe is here. Do have politeness enough to come down-stairs. I don't know but that his mother is a shade better, but she has had a chance to die twice over, the time he's been getting here!" The news of the anxiety in Ashurst hurried Helen's visit. She might be of use, she thought, and she had better go now than a week later.
"Oh, no, I could not give up my Ashurst Sundays," answers Maria, fidgeting amongst her cups and saucers; "I have too many interests here, the schools, and the church and the preaching not that the Rector's sermons are always very lively; and then I like chanting and intoning." "And can you not convert the Doctor?" "I think that would be impossible; Dr. Vavasour always held to his own opinions.
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