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On the 7th February 1782, the signal was made for an opportunity of sending letters to England, and subsequently for the captain of the Tisiphone: Captain Saumarez had been dining with his friend, Captain Charrington, on board the Ajax, and it was some time before he reached the Barfleur; when he found to his dismay and mortification that he was ordered home!
Iola's cry, "Don't, Barney!" arrested Mrs. Duff Charrington's attention. "What's up?" she shouted. "How's this? We're off! Bulling, what the deuce who gave orders?" Mrs. Duff Charrington for once in her life was, as she would have said herself, completely flabbergasted. At a single glance she took in the white face of Iola, and that of Dr. Bulling, no less white. "What's up?" she cried again.
"You have a right to be critical," she said meaningly; "I should think you must have been top of the class," and a flush of gratification came to his face. They all went to church again in the evening, and this time Mr. Charrington read the prayers and the lessons, in a mellow, cultured voice that was very agreeable to Malcolm's ear. Mr. Carlyon preached.
'This is a very curious thing, Charrington said to himself. 'My old friend, Lord Garvagh, and my new friend, Rainsford, both say exactly the same thing; and they both profess to be saved.
Charrington has been away for the last six weeks, and he has had far too much to do; he has taken a bad cold, and his cough is troublesome. I have been speaking to Dr. Randolph to-day, and he thinks the vicar ought to come back." Then she stopped as Dinah came hurriedly into the room. Malcolm's unexpected visit had evidently alarmed her. "Oh, Mr.
Charrington had quitted them, they turned into the long woodland path that skirted the valley. It was a beautiful spot, and a favourite resort of Elizabeth's. She loved to breathe the spicy incense of the pines, and to watch the shadows move across the valley. As they seated themselves under a little clump of firs, they could look down into the dark woods far below.
'When you are quite alone, his lordship pleaded, 'I should like you to read slowly and carefully the third chapter of John's Gospel! Later on, Charrington met William Rainsford, and the acquaintance ripened into intimacy. 'Do you know what I wish you would do, Fred? Rainsford said to him one day. 'I wish, when you are by yourself, that you would study the third chapter of the Gospel of John!
The next moment she was pointing out the vicarage to Malcolm, a gray, picturesque-looking house, standing in a pleasant garden. "It is not really the vicarage," she explained, "although it goes by the name. It used to belong to old Colonel Trelawney; but when he died and Mrs. Trelawney left Rotherwood, Mr. Charrington took it. It is not large, but quite the right size for an old bachelor.
Elizabeth, with a resigned expression, folded up her work. "I left the vicarage note," continued Cedric, mollified by this submission. "Mr. Charrington was engaged, but Mrs. Finch brought me his message his kind regards to Miss Templeton, and he would have much pleasure in dining at the Wood House to-night." "Did you tell Dinah?"
Duff Charrington's assistance she succeeded in keeping them deep in her heart under guard. As Mrs. Duff Charrington kissed her good-night she whispered: "Don't face any issue to-night. Don't settle anything. Give time a chance. Time is a wonderfully wise old party." And Iola, sitting back in the carriage, decided she would act upon the advice which suited so thoroughly her own habit of mind.
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