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Moreover, food at Mannering was much more plentiful than food in town especially since the advent of Elizabeth Bremerton. It was of Elizabeth that Mrs. Gaddesden was thinking as she sat alone in the hall. From her seat she could perceive a shrubbery walk in the garden outside, along which two figures were pacing Miss Bremerton and the new agent.
The Laird owned many ships, and he noted the slurring of the "sir" as only an old sailor can slur it. And there was a naval base at Bremerton. "You're an old sailor, aren't you, Brent?" he pursued. "Yes, sir. I was retired a chief petty officer, sir. Thirty years' continuous service, sir and I was in the mercantile marine at sixteen. I've served my time as a shipwright.
He won't keep you long. Elizabeth went unwillingly. The library was in darkness, except for one small lamp at the further end, and the Squire was walking up and down. He stopped abruptly as he saw his secretary. 'I won't keep you, Miss Bremerton, but do you happen to know at all where my will is? 'Your will, Mr. Mannering? said Elizabeth in amazement. 'No, indeed! I have never seen it.
"As to the women," said the rector, "I have to acknowledge that I have never had any experience with the militant type of which you speak." "I pray God you may never have," exclaimed Mr. Parr, with more feeling than he had yet shown. "Woman's suffrage, and what is called feminism in general, have never penetrated to Bremerton.
'Why, Desmond! said his father, as the boy emerged into the light, 'your train's punctual for once. Thank you, Miss Bremerton that'll do. Kindly write to those people and say that I am considering the matter. I needn't keep you any longer.... That night a demon came to Elizabeth and offered her a Faust-like bargain. Ambition noble ambition on the one side an 'elderly lunatic' on the other.
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.
The following morning, an urgent telegram from her younger sister recalled Elizabeth Bremerton to London, where her mother's invalid condition had suddenly taken a disastrous turn for the worse. 'Hullo, Aubrey! what brings you here? And with the words Arthur Chicksands, just emerging from the War Office, stopped to greet a brother officer, who was just entering it. 'Nothing much.
But as he saw the car nearing the house, he turned to Elizabeth. 'I expect we shall cross to-night. I shall wire you to-morrow. Then to Forest 'Do your best to help Miss Bremerton. She is in charge of everything. 'Aye, sir. You'll give our duty to Mr. Desmond, sir. I trust you'll bring him home. The Squire made no reply. He stood motionless till the car arrived, stepped into it, and was gone.
Every moment she expected to hear the Fallerton taxi draw up at the front door bringing Elizabeth Bremerton back to Mannering. She had been away more than a month. Mrs. Gaddesden went back in thought to the morning when it had been announced to the Squire by his pale and anxious secretary that she had had bad news of her invalid mother, and must go home at once.
He understood that Arthur and Miss Bremerton had met occasionally, and he had himself heard Chicksands express the warmest admiration for her as the right sort of new woman, 'as straight as you make 'em' and with 'a brain like a man' which, from one who was always rather a critical spectator than a courtier of women, was high praise.
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