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"I have my chance now; that is all. I have more than four years of hard fight facing me before I am sure that the Army can be my career." "You'll make it, Prescott, just as you've made everything you've gone after at High School," replied Dr. Bentley heartily. "But, now that we've congratulated you, we mustn't keep you an instant longer from your classmates.
Bentley, the new master of Trinity, thought fit to write to the Viscountess Castlewood, my lord's mother, and beg her to remove the young nobleman from a college where he declined to learn, and where he only did harm by his riotous example. Indeed, I believe he nearly set fire to Nevil's Court, that beautiful new quadrangle of our college, which Sir Christopher Wren had lately built.
Dick turned carefully to glance at the bend above them. "Steam launch, with an excursion party," he informed the others. "I think I see Laura Bentley and Belle Meade in the bow waving handkerchiefs at us." Dan Dalzell turned abruptly around. Harry Hazelton did the same. "Look out!" cried Greg, as he shifted swiftly to steady the craft. Just then Tom Reade turned, too.
Oh, I wish Glendenning was man enough to make her run off with him, and get married, in spite of everything. But, of course, that's impossible for a clergyman! And her sacrifice began so long ago that it's become part of her life, and she'll simply have to keep on." When her attack passed off, Mrs. Bentley sent and begged my wife to come again and see her.
"Preston Parr had been in love with this woman, and separated from her. She was under Mr. Bentley's care when he found her again, I infer, by accident. From what the driver says, they were together in a hotel in Ayers Street, and he died after he had been put in a carriage. In her terror, she was bringing him to Mr. Bentley." The doctor nodded. "Poor woman!" he said unexpectedly.
"No," said Alison, surprised by his manner, "except that Mr. Bentley had found her a place to live, near the hospital, with a widow who was a friend of his. And that the child was well, and she could look life in the face again. Oh, it is terrible to think that people all around us are getting into such straits, and that we are so indifferent to it!" Hodder did not speak at once.
Old Captain Bentley had just been whistled up, and had granted her what he never granted before... nor since permission for the boys to come up on the promenade deck. You see, Miss Caruthers was a swimmer, and she was interested.
"How do you boys come to be here?" asked Laura. "I might ask the same question of your party," smiled Dick. "As for us, we are away on a vacation fishing and camping trip." "I knew you were going away," said Dr. Bentley, "but I didn't know just where. We are touring again, in my seven-passenger car. We are headed for the St. Clair Lake House, eight miles below here.
"Is he so?" said Jenny, in a still more constrained tone. "Didn't like it in France, from what she heard." "Very like not," murmured Jenny. "He's got a place with Mr Chadderton the young gentleman who was married of late, and who's coming to live at Bentley Hall; so you're like to see a bit of him again." "I don't want to see him," said Jenny suddenly. "I'd as lief he didn't come nigh me."
Bentley very quietly, "if you contemplate seeking a court order for having the dog shot, then I suggest that you permit me to take the young man aside and examine him. I am a physician, with a good many years of practice behind me, and any court would pronounce me competent to testify as to whether your son has been bitten, and, if so, to what extent."
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