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Perhaps the most lasting impression made by the town will be that of hush and silence; not that it is stagnant or utterly decayed, but even the main streets are saturated with the grave air of a cathedral close, a fitting atmosphere for a place which retired from active city life over eight hundred years ago. An interesting excursion may be made to Cadbury Castle, five miles north of Sherborne.
Jack, roused at this injustice, dipped the sponge into his water-jug, and returned it with force. Vickers ducked, and it exploded against the wall above his head. Cadbury watched and chuckled. The shadow cast by coming events had not quite overwhelmed the boys' spirits. When they were called, the boot-boy laid a book on Cadbury's bed as he passed.
These are your things, aren't they?" "Yes; but I was just going to put them away. You mustn't mark me!" "You've not forgotten the little call you have to pay this afternoon?" "I wanted to speak to you about that, Cadbury. It's very difficult for me to do it, you know. What do you say supposing we leave that chicken alone? I don't want to go after it. And it's my chicken, you know."
Cadbury is not inconsistent if he tells truth at a different rate to different people, or if he chooses to put truths before people in Indian file. A man is not inconsistent who does not tell all the news he knows to all kinds of people, all at once, all the time. There is nothing disingenuous about having an order for truth.
"Not a bit of it!" exclaimed Cadbury. "Depend upon it, she's been at our chicken. The shameless, thieving beast!" "At yours, Cad?" This was uttered in chorus. "At mine ours! It's a treat for us all. I was going to wait till lights were out, but I daren't now. The cat'll have the rest if we aren't quick; perhaps she's eaten it already. Keep cave by the door, Jack, while I haul in the line."
They were the last gift of a life devoted to the interests of others, and the happiness and peace which characterize them are fitting memorials of the late Richard Cadbury, the elder of the two brothers who founded this great industry, and who have in their lives been favoured to see such untold blessing upon their labours.
Cadbury waved his arm in their direction, and turned up his eyes with an air of mock tragedy, while he spouted with rolling "r's": "How fair a sight it is to see Youth lay aside its giddy glee, Athirst for learning's boundless sea! How different from you and me!"
Ninety-five per cent. is the proportion given to me by an eminent Friend, no stranger to Birmingham, intimately known to Alderman White and three generations of the Cadbury family. He said, "Irish Quakers are Unionists, because they are on the spot, because they understand the subject, because they know what will follow, because they share the dangers of the threatened revolution.
In affright and agitation, Grey turned his machine into the hedge, and tumbled off, somehow, anyhow, into the road. Five minutes later, Cadbury was toiling back up the hill in quest of his school-fellow, when he came upon a very unexpected sight. A prostrate bicycle beside a live, but bruised and dusty boy, who was sadly gazing upon the body of a chicken. "My good Grey! Good gracious!
But for the remainder of the term, the use of a knife, even at dinner, was denied the little Italian. "Brady, have you missed anything?" asked Cadbury a few days later. "No, I don't think so," replied Jack, feeling doubtfully in his pockets. "Because you have certainly lost something," continued Cadbury. "Well, give it me quick, then," said Jack, laughing. "Whatever is it?" "I can't give it you.
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