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Were those indeed the dainty little children who such a short time ago were living, and busy like myself, happy with the tinsmith's toys, and sad for a drenched doll? Wild speculations floated through my head as I followed the tutor, without hearing one word of what he was saying about tea and teachers, and reaching Dacrefield before dark. I had wished to be their brother.
I did not forget the little lady in the white beaver, even after my return to Dacrefield. It is unromantic to have to confess that it fell at last into the washhand basin, and was reduced to pulp. I brought my farthing flat-iron home with me, and it was for long a favourite plaything.
Clerke had got a curacy in London, and preached very earnest sermons, which Aunt Maria hoped would do Helen good. Mr. Clerke worked very hard, and seemed to like it; but he said that his happiest days were Dacrefield days. "I quite agree with him," Polly added. Then came a letter: "Oh, my dear Regie, fancy! Miss Blomfield is married. And to whom, do you think?
The day my wife and I returned from our wedding trip to Dacrefield was a very happy one. We had a triumphal welcome from the tenants, my dear father was beaming, the Rector no less so, and good old Nurse Bundle showered blessings on the head of my bride. Frances was a great favourite with her. She was devoted to the old woman, and her delicate tact made her adapt herself to all Mrs.
Clerke were the very best of friends, and my uncle would go to the Rectory for a quiet smoke, and was always hospitably received. She tried a delicate remonstrance, but though he was most courteous, it was not to be mistaken that the Rector of Dacrefield meant to go his own way: "the way of a better man than I shall ever be," he said.
We seldom met afterwards, and were never intimate; but, slight as it was, our tie was that of friendship rather than acquaintance. The next presentation to the Rectory of Dacrefield was in my father's gift. He held it alternately with the Bishop, to whom he owed Mr. Andrewes. He gave it to my old tutor. Mr. Clerke's appointment had the rare merit of pleasing everybody.
From her feverish interest in Dacrefield, her ill-concealed excitement when the visit was proposed, the improvement in her health since she came, and a multitude of other small facts which my aunt had ferreted out and patched together with an ingenuity that amazed me, Maria was supposed to care for me. "We were a good deal together in town, sir," said I, "and Maria was very jolly with me.
In fact, Oakford was his native place, though he was passing his old age in Dacrefield, and he had a natural desire to see it again, and a natural belief that the spot where he had been young and strong, and light-hearted, had especial merits of its own. Even though we had nothing better to propose, old Giles' love for home would hardly have decided us, but he had something more to add.
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