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Updated: May 13, 2025
M. Raoul was reseating himself on his perch, when he happened to throw a look down into the road, and at once broke into immoderate laughter. "Talk of the wolf " Polly screamed and ran. Below, at a bend of the road, stood a stoutish figure in the uniform of the Axcester Volunteers scarlet, with white facings. It was Corporal Zeally, very slowly taking in the scene.
The letter contained a draft, for ten pounds, to be spent upon small comforts at the Commandant's discretion; but M. Raoul was not to be informed of the donor, or of his approaching liberty. In theory such was the routine Raoul remained one of the Axcester contingent of prisoners, and all reports concerning him must pass through the Commissary's hands.
One or both of the two brothers who, with their half-sister, represented the family in 1810, rode in on every week-day to their Bank-office in Axcester High Street, a Georgian house of brick, adorned with a porch of plaster fluted to the shape of a sea-shell, out of which a.
The part of County Magistrate to which he had been born he played to perfection, and with a full sense of its dignified amenity. "I'm an Axcester man," he would declare in his public speeches, and in his own way he loved and served the little borough.
The widower had created one of the few scandals in the Westcote history by espousing, some four years later, a young woman of quite inferior class, the daughter of a wholesale glover in Axcester. The new wife had good looks, but they did not procure her pardon; and she made the amplest and speediest amends by dying within twelve months, and leaving a daughter who in no way resembled her.
For the rest, she was proud of Bayfield and content, though one day much resembled another, to live all her life there, devoted to God and her garden. Visitors always praised her garden. Axcester lies on the western side and mostly at the foot of a low hill set accurately in the centre of a ring of hills slightly higher-the raised bottom of a saucer would be no bad simile.
Flat columns relieved the blank wall of this passage, with monstrous copies of Raphael's cartoons filling the interspaces; on the other hand four tall windows, two on either side of the door, looked out upon the porte cochère, the avenue, and the rolling hills beyond Axcester. By one of these windows M. Raoul halted and Dorothea halted too, slightly puzzled.
"May I ask you if you seriously propose to familiarise Axcester with all the orgies of a Continental Sabbath?
For its good he held its Parliamentary representation in the hollow of his hand; and, as Overseer of the Poor, had dared public displeasure by revising the Voters' List and defying a mandamus of the Court of King's Bench rather than allow Axcester to fail in its duty of returning two members to support Mr. Percevall's Ministry.
I can scarcely even term it the thin end of the wedge, so clearly can I see it paving the way for other questionable indulgences. I don't doubt your good intentions, Dorothea, but you cannot, as a woman, be expected to understand how easily the best intentions may convert Axcester, with its French community, into a veritable hot-bed of vice.
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