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"I don't think he pretends to be anything," said Diana. "Only to have his own way wherever he goes," added Diana's mother. "I'd be content to let him have his own way," said Mrs. Carpenter. "It's pretty sure to be a good way; that's what I think. I wisht he had it, for my part." "And yet he isn't eloquent?" said Mrs. Boddington.
"I wonder is nobody ever comin' back to Elmfield?" said Mrs. Boddington. "They don't do nothin' with the place, and it's just waste." The talk wandered on; but Diana's thoughts remained fixed.
"I wisht he had a family," remarked Miss Gunn; "that's all I've got agin him. I think a minister had allays ought to have a family." "He will, let him alone a while," said Mrs. Boddington. "Time enough. Who have we got in town that would do for him?" The fruitful topic of debate and discussion here started, lasted the ladies for some time. Talk and business got full under weigh.
It was a sort of battery that Diana had to face, and sometimes a masked battery; but it was impossible to tell whether a shot hit. "What I want to know," said Mrs. Boddington, "is, where the minister and you made it up, Di. You were awful sly about it!" "Ain't that so?" chimed in Mrs. Carpenter.
Why is it duty, to go to church when one don't want to go?" "Well, I'm sure it was time we had a new minister," said Mrs Salter; "and I'm glad he's come. If he's no better than old Mr. Hardenburgh, it'll take us a spell to find it out; and that'll be so much gained. He don't look like him any way." "He is different, ain't he?" assented Mrs. Boddington. "If we wanted a change, we've got it.
"That's jes' so," said Miss Barry, her eyes glistening over her knitting, which they did not need to watch. And there was a hum of assent through the room. "I'm not sayin' nothin' agin him," said Mrs. Flandin in an injured manner; "but what I was hintin', I warn't sayin' nothin', is that he's married a" "A beauty" said Mrs. Boddington. "I don't set no count on beauty," said the other.
Boddington; "or the Mexicans; or the English may be; anything that comes handy." "But we hain't no quarrel with the English, nor nobody, hev' we? I thought we was done fightin' for the present," said Miss Barry in a disturbed tone of voice. "Well, suppos'n we be," said Mrs.
Great numbers of them, after the departure of Hastings, seized and fortified Shobury, at the mouth of the Thames; and having left a garrison there, they marched along the River, till they came to Boddington, in the county of Gloucester; where, being reinforced by some Welsh, they threw up intrenchments, and prepared for their defence. M. West. p. 179. Flor.
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