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Frost and the two lovers, and made her promise to bring him comfortably and quietly down to stay at Ormersfield and give his vote. And so, when the election finally came on, Mr. Calcott found himself left with only his faithful grocer to support his protege.
'Only seven, and three go into school at Easter. Jem and Clara, wish me to undertake no more, but I should sorely miss the little fellows. I wish they may do me as much credit as Sydney Calcott. He wrote himself to tell me of his success. 'I am glad to hear it. He is a very promising young man. 'I tell him I shall come to honour, as the old dame who taught him to spell.
He was at this point when Lord Ormersfield entered, and after his daily civil ceremonious inquiries of the ladies whether they had walked or driven out, he turned to his son, saying, 'I met Mr. Calcott just now, and heard from him that he had been sorry to convict a person in whom you took interest, a lad from Marksedge. What did you know of him?
Perhaps, too, some of your readers may be led to visit the scene of these doings if they ever come to wander about the old country. Reading is only an hour from London now-a-days, and I will promise them that they will not easily find a fairer corner in all England. The Bath road, it is true, is now comparatively deserted, and no well-appointed coaches flash by in front of Calcott Park.
'Do you doubt that? and James threw to him a sheet where, in Richardson's clerkly handwriting, the trustees of King Edward's Northwold Grammar School formally accepted the resignation of the Reverend James Roland Frost Dynevor. 'They cannot be so hasty! Did not Mr. Calcott call to gee you? 'An old humbug! 'I'll go and see him this instant. Something may be done.
'Ah! said young Calcott, 'I had all my dates at my fingers' ends when I went up for the modern history prize. Now my sister could beat me. 'A proof of what I always say, observed Louis, 'that it is lost labour to read for an examination. 'From personal experience? asked Sydney. 'A Strasburg goose nailed down and crammed before a fire, becomes a Strasburg pie, said Louis.
'I have always thought he learnt that peculiar refinement from your grandmother. 'I think, said Mrs. Ponsonby, softly, 'that it is purity of heart which makes him see heaven so bright. 'Sydney Calcott walked part of the way with me, continued Jem, 'and showed more feeling than I thought was in him. He said just what I do, that he never saw any one to whom evil seemed so unable to cling.
Home then he went, where he spent the long summer days in listless, desultory, busy idleness, often alone, dreaming over last year, often passing his evenings with his aunt, or bringing her to see his designs; dining out whenever he was invited, and returning odd uncertain answers when Mr. Calcott asked him what he was going to do. Mr.
'I went to the Justice-room! 'My dear! with the groundsel? 'And the knitting-needles! On rushed the narration, unheeding trifles. 'There was the array: Mr. Calcott in the chair, and old Freeman, and Captain Shaw, and fat Sir Gilbert, and all the rest, met to condemn this wretched widow's son for washing his feet in a gutter! 'Pray what said the indictment? asked Mrs. Ponsonby.
All my friends understand that I keep out of all fine company and great parties, and see only my friends. Here the carriage came to the door, and we have been to see Mrs. Calcott, who was Mrs. Graham, who was very glad to see me, and entertaining; and Lady Elizabeth Whitbread as kind and affectionate as ever.
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