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Updated: June 5, 2025
The circumstances which led to the Reverend William's departure from Bleakirk had happened some two years before my birth: but they were startling enough to supply talk in that dull fishing village for many a long day.
For a moment he fought it, then, throwing up his arms, sank forward, slowly and as if bowing yet, upon his face. Second by second we stood and watched him disappear. Within five minutes the ripples of the Quick-Boy Sand met once more above him. In the course of the next afternoon the Vicar of Bleakirk called at the Hall with a paper which he had found pinned to the church door.
When we came to the Chalk-pit, I kept him on the farther side of the road, though it cost me some terror to walk between him and the edge; for I have too much imagination to be a thoroughly brave man. The sun was sinking as we walked down to Bleakirk; and the recruiting sergeant sat asleep outside the "Woolpack," with his head on the window-sill.
"Considering that Bleakirk is six miles away, that I am walking in the other direction, and that, two hours back, you gave me a cursed cut over the legs with that whip, I fancy I see myself obliging you!" He regarded me moodily for about a minute, but did not shift his position. "Why are you on foot?" I asked.
But he rides beautifully, and is ever so strong, and not so badly ed educated as you would fancy: he can say all his 'five-times. And he worships me, don't you, Billy?" "Washups," said Billy, stolidly. "Do you mean to tell me you have trotted in this sun all the way from Bleakirk?" I inquired. The girl nodded.
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