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Updated: June 11, 2025
Luke's, and then we found he'd been staying with the Baxendales all through Emily's illness. 'How did you find it out? You don't know the Baxendales. 'No, but Mrs. Gadd does, and she told us. 'What's his name? 'Mr. Athel a queer name, isn't it? Dagworthy was silent. 'Now you're cross with me, Jessie exclaimed.
Then, with sunk head, she offered to shake hands. 'No use, Jessie, Dagworthy remarked quietly, without answering her gesture. 'Of course, I know it's no use, she said in a hurried voice of shame. 'I know it as well as you can tell me. I wish I'd never come. 'But you don't act badly, he continued. 'What do you mean? she exclaimed, indignation helping her to raise her eyes for a moment.
He would not have employed the formal prefix to his clerk's name but for Emily's presence; the father knew that, and felt grateful. 'Not this year, I think, sir, he replied, with perfect cheerfulness. Of the three dogs that accompanied Dagworthy, one was a handsome collie.
Dagworthy had wrought for her that which in the night's conflict she could not bring about by her own force; knowing, in the face of utter despair, the whole depth of the love with which she held to her father, she could yet speak his doom with calmness, with clear intelligence that the sacrifice she was asked to make was disproportionate to the disaster threatened.
'Does your father know you are paying it? He does not. I was not likely to speak to him of what you told me. There is the debt, Mr. Dagworthy; we have paid it, and now I will leave you. He examined her. Even yet he could not be sure that he understood. In admitting her, he had taken it for granted that she could come with but one purpose.
He did not seem to care to dwell upon it, and the lady, after her experiment, imagined that it had not been made altogether in vain. With that exception Dagworthy had kept to his mill and his house. It was seldom that he had a visitor, and those persons who did call could hardly feel that they were desired to come again. Mrs.
Even as the childhood of civilisation knows virtue only in the form of a concrete deity, so to Dagworthy the higher life of which he was capable took shape as a mortal woman, and to possess her was to fulfil his being. With the certainty that she was beyond his reach came failure of the vital forces which promised so much.
But he learned with Braddock that the dress of parade has as real military value as that of service, and when he traveled northward to settle about Captain Dagworthy, he felt justly that he now was going on parade for the first time as the representative of his troops and his colony. Therefore with excellent sense he dressed as befitted the occasion, and at the same time gratified his own taste.
Not very long after his arrival at the mill, Dagworthy himself appeared. Hood's evil conscience led him to regard with apprehension every unusual event. Dagworthy's unwonted earliness was still troubling his mind, when a messenger summoned him to the private room.
Will you I entreat you to think what it means at my age my wife I ought to be content with thanking you for having spared me how few would have done that! Let me continue to serve you a lower salary if it be ever so little till I have regained your confidence Dagworthy was drumming with his fingers on the desk.
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