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He did not see the sudden whitening of Brenton's face; but his trained ear did make out the swift intake of Brenton's breath. "She came and went." "When you were here?" "Yes." "And you were here, you or Mr. Brenton, all night long?" "Yes." "And all the morning?" "Except when I was telephoning to you." "Hm!"
Nevertheless, he recognized all that it might portend when such a girl as Olive Keltridge, the soul of sanity and downrightness, talked about her comprehension of a man like Brenton. Moreover, Opdyke was no gossip. Nevertheless, he had not failed to hear a certain amount of speculation as to the possibilities of Brenton's seeking a divorce. Sought, there was no question of his getting it.
One doesn't get much sanctification out of a sermon couched in glittering generalities and delivered by a rector with a crumpled brow. Therefore the trustee of the college has told tales to the doctor, and the doctor is hinting the gist of those tales to his patient." "Do you think I'd fill the place?" Brenton's voice surprised himself by its unwonted quivering of eagerness.
However, as the talk went on, shock had yielded to an intense pity, born of his love for his superior officer. Brenton was mistaken, wofully mistaken; but the mistake had cost him dear. All the more, he was deserving pity upon that account. The tears stood in the little curate's honest eyes, as he gripped Brenton's hand at parting.
And so the pressure of outside interests fell on Scott Brenton's shoulders until, perforce, they straightened up to bear the burden. And the straightening was by no means wholly theoretical. It was an infinitely saner, sounder Brenton who faced his classes on the first morning of the new semester, than any one, watching him throughout the previous year, would have ever dared to hope.
Brenton's got yeast in him, Olive, fine, lively yeast. There is no telling what he would rise to, if only we could succeed in abolishing her." "If only she wouldn't allude to him in public as His Reverence!" Olive sighed. "It is almost as bad as her coy flirtation with him, during sermon time. If I were in his place, I'd brain her." The doctor pushed his chair back from the table.
To hear Reed speaking, one would have been sure that the world was all before him, waiting at his idle feet. Brenton's answer echoed the selfsame note. "Adulation, Opdyke! I'm a hard-worked clergyman, and target for more criticism than you engineers have ever dreamed of." "Much you are! But do sit down. You make me want to get up, too, when you rage around like that. No; not that stuffed chair.
I took him away from Chicago, hoping to ease his trouble a little; but it has had no effect." "It will come out all right by-and-by," said Ferris, who noticed the pained look on Brenton's face. "It is the period of probation that he has to pass through. It will wear off.
He listened hungrily, and yet at times with evident impatience. "No," he said, "I cannot believe that it was an accident. It was you " She stopped him with an imploring gesture. "Please," she said, "please let us go in." Without an instant's hesitation he brought the sloop about and headed her for the light-ship on Brenton's reef, and they sailed in silence.
Still, she could not keep her mind from lingering an instant on the wonder whether, if Brenton's wife had been sensitive, unselfish, alert to supply, in so far as lay within her, the sympathy of which he plainly was in need, the present crisis ever would have dawned. She doubted. If ever there had been a case where a wife had muddled things by her total lack of comprehension, here it was.
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