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But we'll make a fresh start with this reward if your father's solicitor approves." The solicitor did approve strongly. And he opened his eyes to their widest extent when he read the anonymous letter and saw the bank-notes. "Your father," he observed to Avice, "is the most mysterious man I ever heard of! The Kitely mystery, in my opinion, is nothing to the Harborough mystery.
"Being a priest, I reckon you're good friends wi' th' angels and th' sky and all that sort of thing; but I ask your pardon, Father, but She belongs to t'other lot, and you don't know her. Eh, you don't, so!" And with an ominous shake of his head, and a good-night to Avice and Bertha, Dan passed out. "Our Lord could do that, Father?" said Avice softly.
When it all came to light, Pica came out and Isa was sent to school, but Avice had got into a low state of health, and they said Oxford was not good for her, so she came to us.
They took his advice, and crept round by the lee-side of the house, under cover of the hedge. When they were out of sight, with a belt of trees between, old Dan took leave of them. "Thou'll be good to the little maid, Avice," said he. "I know thou will, or I'd never ha' let her go. But she'll be better off ay, a deal better off, she'll be. She gets put upon, she does.
Avice looked aside at the statuary as if the subtleties of her organization were not very easy to define. 'Was he that black-bearded typical local character I saw you walking with one Sunday? The same surname as mine; though, of course, you don't notice that in a place where there are only half-a-dozen surnames? 'Yes, that was Ike. It was that evening we disagreed.
"I don't know what we should have done if it hadn't been for you!" said Avice. "But we shan't forget. My father is a strange man, Mr. Brereton, but he's not the sort of man he's believed to be by these Highmarket people and he's grateful to you as you'll see." "But I must do something to merit his gratitude first, you know," replied Brereton. "Come! I've done next to nothing as yet.
Avice ran to the door, and opened it, to find two priests standing on the threshold. They entered, the foremost with a smile to the child, after which he held up his hand, saying, "Christ save all here!" Then he held out his hand, which both Agnes and her mother kissed, and sat down on one of the forms by the table. Every priest was then looked upon as a most holy person.
I would do for you what I would do for no other man, and there is one reason in particular which inclines me to help you with Avice that I should feel absolutely certain I was helping her to a kind husband. 'Well, that would remain to be seen. I would, at any rate, try to be worthy of your opinion. Come, Avice, for old times' sake, you must help me.
"Eleanor's not always in a good temper," said Bertha doubtfully. "She's best o' t'other lot," said old Dan. "She's none so bad, by nows and thens. I shall do rarely, thou'll see. But, Avice dost thou think thou could just creep off like at th' lee-side o' th' house, wi' the little maid, afore She sees thee? When thou'rt gone I'll tell her, and then I'll have a run for't till it's o'er.
Later in the day she re-entered and broke a silence by saying bitterly: 'I showed temper just now, as you told me. But things have causes, and it is perhaps a mistake that you should have deserted Avice for me. Instead of wedding Rosaline, Romeo must needs go eloping with Juliet. It was a fortunate thing for the affections of those two Veronese lovers that they died when they did.
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