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'Any way, he said, 'the thing is right to be done, provided my mother does not make an absolute point of my giving it up; and whether she does or not depends a good deal on how you others put it to her. 'Right on Mr. Castleford's account? I asked. 'That is one side of it. To refuse would put him in a serious difficulty; but I could perhaps come home sooner if it were not for this other matter.
Then, when the fugitive found that young Winslow was too acute to be blinded, and that it had been a still greater mistake to try to overcome his integrity, self-defence required his ruin, or at any rate his expulsion, before he could gain Mr. Castleford's ear.
Once or twice the shutters had to be put up at Frith and Castleford's to prevent the windows from being broken; and once Clarence actually saw our nation's hero, 'the Duke, riding quietly and slowly through a yelling, furious mob, who seemed withheld from falling on him by the perfect impassiveness of the eagle face and spare figure.
You don't know how things are in such houses as ours. One may only ruin oneself without doing any good. 'You cannot write to him? 'Certainly not. He has taken his family to Mrs. Castleford's home in the north of Ireland for a month or six weeks. I don't know the address, and I cannot run the risk of the letter being opened at the office. 'Can't you speak to my father?
Yet this was a great advance upon former Confirmations, and the Bishop met my father afterwards, and inquired most kindly after his lame son. We were disappointed, and felt that we could not attain to the feelings in the Confirmation poem in the Christian Year Mr. Castleford's gift to me. Still, I believe that, though encumbered with such a drag as myself, Clarence, more than I did,
And then I knew my despair and determination to leave it all behind were a temptation "the old story," as you told me, and I prayed God to help me, and just managed to fight it out. Thank God for her! If it had not been for that good woman, he would have been out of reach already out in the river before Mr. Castleford's messenger had reached London!
'But you are leading a new life. 'Only because there is no one to bully me, he said. Still, there had been no reproach against him all the time he had been at Frith and Castleford's, when suddenly we had a great shock.
Castleford's disappointment; of possible prosecution; of the shame at home; the misery of a life a second time blighted. He fought it out on his knees, many a time persuading himself that flight would not be a sin, then returning to the sense that it was a temptation of his worse self to be overcome.
There had been cases in London all the spring, but no special anxiety was felt when Clarence returned to his work in the end of July, much refreshed and invigorated by his holiday, and with the understanding that he was to have a rise in position and salary on Mr. Castleford's return from Ireland, where he was still staying with his wife's relations.
Castleford's in order to give him change of work and a sight of home, where, by the help of the coach, he could spend his Sundays. That first spring day on his way down was a great delight and even surprise to him, who had never seen our profusion of primroses, cowslips, and bluebells, nor our splendid blossom of trees apple, lilac, laburnum all vieing in beauty with one another.
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