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The activities of boys' schools, picnic parties, ambulant scientific societies and field-clubs out in pursuit of weeds, of stone-cracking, and the desecration of those old heathen burying barrows on Stone Horse Head quieted off for the time being. Deadham, meanwhile, in act of repossessing its soul in peace and hibernating according to time-honoured habit until the vernal equinox.
And unfeathered fowl, in their own estimation eminently representative of that regal species, flocked to Deadham church and to The Hard. If to vary our metaphor some, in the past, inclined to stone the living prophet, these now outvied one another in their alacrity to bedeck his tomb. Dr.
Deadham church, originally a chapelry of Marychurch Abbey, crowns a green monticule in the centre of Deadham village, backed by a row of big elms. A wide, low-roofed structure, patched throughout the course of centuries beyond all unity and precision of design; yet still showing traces of Norman work in the arch of the belfry and in the pillars supporting the rafters of the middle aisle.
By such varied activities had Carteret systematically essayed to rid himself of his somewhat exquisite distemper, and, when coming to Deadham, honestly believed himself immune, sane and safe. He was proportionately disturbed by finding the cure of this autumn love-madness less complete than, fool-like, he had supposed.
Dreams might, and usually did, visit him; but as so much incidental music merely to the large content of slumber tittering up and down, too airily light-footed and evanescent to leave any impress on mind or spirits when he woke. This night, at Deadham Hard, marked a new departure; sleep proving a less absolute break in continuity of sensation, a less absolute barrier between day and day.
The said vanishing was reported to Damaris by Mary, on the day subsequent to its occurrence, not without signs of hardly repressed jubilation. For "Egypt," in this case represented by the Deadham Hard servants' hall, was unfeignedly "glad at her departing." "A good riddance, I call it and we all know the rest of that saying," Mrs.
For I gather I have no reason to be ashamed of this young man which on your account, even more than on my own, is so much clear gain. But I oughtn't to have brought you here to live at Deadham. I ought to have taken the possibility of some accidental revelation, such as the present one, into serious account and saved you from that.
Deadham, however, being reprehensibly clannish, viewed the incident otherwise; and questioned thanks to an ingeniously inverted system of reasoning whether the said Reginald Sawyer hadn't laid himself open to a charge of manslaughter or of an even graver breach of the Decalogue.
Business, and the boy's sea-going or returning, might take her as far as Southampton, Plymouth, Cardiff, more rarely London or some northern port. But Deadham village rarely beheld her, and never, it is to be feared, did the inside of Deadham church.
Deadham resembled most country parishes in this, that, while revelling in internal dissensions, when attacked from without its inhabitants promptly scrapped every vendetta and, for the time being, stood back to back against the world.
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