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"He's been here for over ten years, ever since he left the seminary, and he's never done or said anything radical yet," replied the mill owner of Bremerton. "If you don't want him, we'd be delighted to have him stay. We're not forcing him on you, you know. What the deuce has got into you? You've talked to him for two hours, and you've sat looking at him at the dinner table for another two.
Elizabeth Bremerton put down her teacup, glanced at the father and daughter, and went discreetly away, back to the library and her work. Pamela hesitated a little, but at last moved nearer to him, and put a hand on his arm. 'Father! I dreadfully want you to let me do something! 'Eh, what? said Mannering, rousing himself. 'Don't try and coax me, child. It doesn't answer.
But Beryl on the one side, and Pamela on the other aided and abetted always by Elizabeth Bremerton had been gradually breaking down the embargo; and when, hearing from Beryl that her brother Arthur was with them for a few days, Pamela had openly proposed in her father's presence to ask them both to luncheon, the Squire had pretended not to hear, but had at any rate raised no objection.
To tell you the truth, after I'd come back from Bremerton, that was the one thing I was afraid of that you mightn't get along with him." Hodder himself was at a loss to account for the relationship. It troubled him vaguely, for Mr.
To tell you the truth, after I'd come back from Bremerton, that was the one thing I was afraid of that you mightn't get along with him." Hodder himself was at a loss to account for the relationship. It troubled him vaguely, for Mr.
And to it he attributed the flourishing condition in which he had left the Church of the Ascension at Bremerton. "We'll never get another rector like you," Alice Whitely had exclaimed, with tears in her eyes, as she bade him good-by. And he had rebuked her.
It was the stupidity of a clever fellow, deluding himself with the notion that having refused the rôle of lover, he could at least play that of guardian and adviser; whose conscience, moreover, was so absolutely clear on the subject of Elizabeth Bremerton that he did not even begin to suspect what was rankling In the girl's morbid sense.
Hodder looked at his watch, only to be reminded poignantly of the chief cause of his heaviness of spirit, for it represented concretely the affections of those whom he had left behind; brought before him vividly the purple haze of the Bremerton valley, and the garden party, in the ample Whitely grounds, which was their tribute to him.
Leaning back on the cushioned seat, as the train started again, he reviewed the years at Bremerton, his first and only parish. Clouds had indeed rested on Bremerton's crests, but beneficent clouds, always scattered by the sun. And there, amid the dazzling snows, he had on occasions walked with God. His success, modest though it were, had been too simple.
Then turning to Miss Bremerton with the slightly over-emphatic civility of a man who prides himself on his manners in all contingencies, he asked her if she was already acquainted with the Mannering neighbourhood. Miss Bremerton replied that it was quite unknown to her. 'You'll admire our trees, said Sir Henry. 'They're very fine.
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