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Mark said he should like to go for a walk very much, but wasn't Sir Charles too busy? "Oh, no, I've nothing to do at all." Yet only that morning he had held forth to Mark at great length on the amount of work demanded for the management of an estate. "Now, why do you want to join Burrowes?" Sir Charles inquired presently.
As it is with Burrowes away all the time raising funds, I don't get a Mass at the Abbey and I have to go to the next parish, which is four miles away and appears highly undignified for the squire." "And you can't get him out?" said Mark. "If I did get him out, I should be afflicted with another one just as bad. The Simeon Trustees only appoint people of the stamp of Mr. Choules, my present enemy.
Perhaps the translation softened it down," surmised Brother Nicholas. "I'll get a dictionary to-morrow." The bell for solemn silence clanged, and Brother Nicholas must have spent his quarter of an hour in most unprofitable meditation. The last was now the Prior's Parlour, because lodgings for Father Burrowes were being built in the Gatehouse, the only building of stone that was being erected.
"Are you going to board the schooner?" asked Burrowes, as Blount came in and sat down. "No, I'm going down to Lak-a-lak. I've got some natives cutting timber for me there, and thought I would just walk along the beach and see how they are getting on. Besides that, my little girl Nellie is there with her uncle."
The American, indeed, had started down the beach to speak to him, when Mr. de Vere called out to him to return to the ship, and Captain Sykes, with a gesture signifying that he would see Burrowes later on, swung round the boat's head and gave the word to his Kanaka crew to give way.
You know what to do white men walk along swamp to shoot duck, then one, two," and Captain Bilker made a motion with his right hand that was perfectly comprehensible to the chief. Banderah sat perfectly quiet on his mat and watched the captain return to Burrowes' house, from where a short time after he emerged, accompanied by his two fellow-conspirators. Then the three of them hailed the schooner.
The white population of Mayou was not large, for it consisted only of an English missionary and his wife who was, of course, a white woman a German trader named Peter Schwartzkoff and his native wife; an English trader named Charlie Blount, with his two half-caste sons and daughters; and an American trader and ex-whaler, named Nathaniel Burrowes, with his wives.
As if quite satisfied with this dumb promise, the American returned to the group he had just left, and then the moment the missionary, Mrs. Deighton, and De Vere had gone, he and the German started off together. The moment they entered the American's house, Burrowes sat down on the table and the German on a gin case.
It was true that Father Rowley disapproved of Father Burrowes; but he had never expressed more than a general disapproval, and Mark was inclined to attribute his attitude to the prejudice of a man of strong personality and definite methods against another man of strong personality and definite methods working on similar lines among similar people.
Father Burrowes was even more successful as a preacher than he hoped; ascribing the steady flow of offertories to Divine favour, he instituted during the next four years, priories at Aldershot and Sandgate.
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