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Churton when Wood End House sent so large a contingent of worshippers to the village church, where the pew in which she had sat alone on so many Sundays poor Mr. Churton's increasing ailments having prevented him from accompanying her was so well filled.
The other rose and walked to the door, where she stood hesitating for a few moments, glancing back at her mother; but Mrs. Churton's face had grown cold and irresponsive, and finally Constance, with a sigh, left the room and went slowly up the stairs. For the rest of the day peace reigned at Wood End House. Mr.
Then she moved a little nearer and said, "Mother, if there is to be no good-bye, will you let me kiss you?" Mrs. Churton's lips moved but made no sound.
A kind word or message from her would have surprised me very much." While she was speaking Fan had entered the room unnoticed. She was pale and looked sad, but calmer now, and the traces of tears had been washed away. Her face flushed when she heard Mrs. Churton's words, and she advanced and stood so that they could not help seeing her. "Fan, I am deeply grieved to hear this," said Mrs. Churton.
The passage quoted from Stephen Eddy's Life of Bishop Wilfrid, at p. 86 of Churton's "Early English Church," gives us one of the transformations or petrifactions of the wooden Saxon churches. "At Ripon he built a new church of polished stone, with columns variously ornamented, and porches." Mr.
She resolved that she would strive religiously to obey Mary's wishes, that she would keep a watch over herself, and not allow any such tender feelings as she had experienced in the garden to overcome her again. She would be Miss Churton's pupil, but not the intimate, loving friend and companion she had hoped to be after first seeing her.
The servant knew no more what he had bought than the master; but a man looking over Churton's collection of curiosities Churton was an Assistant Commissioner by the way saw and held his tongue. He was an Englishman; but knew how to believe. Which shows that he was different from most Englishmen.
If she could have explained it all to Mrs. Churton it would have been better, at all events for Constance, but she was incapable of such a thing, even if she had possessed the courage, and so she kept silence, although she could see that her want of interest was distressing to her kind friend. Another great bitterness in Mrs. Churton's cup resulted from the conduct of her irreclaimable husband.
Her mind was troubled at Miss Churton's approach; for it now seemed to her that human affection and sympathy were more to her than they had ever been; that a touch, a word, a look almost, would be sufficient to overcome her and make her fall from her loyalty to Mary.
Fan, on her side, had drifted into her present way of thinking, or not thinking, independently of her teacher, and entirely uninfluenced by her. At the beginning she responded readily to Mrs. Churton's motherly teaching; but only because the teaching was motherly, and intimately associated with those purely human feelings which were everything to her.
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