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"Not fretting so much about the child, Jemmy?" "Just as anxious to hear of it, though. 'Has he been to Ramsey to-day? Did he see her? Is she well? That's the word constant, sir." The Deemster was silent again, and Jem was withdrawing with a deep bow. "Jemmy, I'm going to Government House, and may be late. Don't wait up for me."
She dare not ask; she dare not speak; she dare not reveal herself. While she stood in the shadow of the prisoners' yard listening to Philip's voice, and held by it as by a spell, there was a low hiss and then a sort of white silence, as when a rocket breaks in the air. The Deemster had finished; the people in the court were breathing audibly and moving in their seats.
"I think," he says, "that I know my Bible as few literary men know it. There is no book in the world like it, and the finest novels ever written fall far short in interest of the stories it tells. Whatever strong situations I have in my books are not of my creation, but are taken from the Bible. 'The Deemster' is the story of the prodigal son.
It was a woman's foot; it crossed the floor, and then ceased. Next morning the Deemster was still sleeping while the sun was shining into his room. He was awakened by a thunderous clamour, which came as from a nail driven into the back of his head. Opening his eyes, he realised that somebody was knocking at his door, and shouting in a robustious bass "Christian, I say!
The first time I set eyes on him, thinks I, 'Here comes the makings of the best lawyer in the island, and by he's not going to disappoint me either." The good fellow was a noisy, hearty, robustious creature, a bachelor, and when talking of the late Deemster, he said women were usually the chief obstacles in a man's career. Then he begged Auntie Nan's pardon, but the old lady showed no anger.
"You have a life's work before you, Deemster, and you must begin soon, but not just yet." "I have something particular to do, doctor," he said at last. "I must lose no time." "You must lose no time indeed, that's why you must stay where you are a little longer." One morning his impatience overcame him, and he got out of bed.
Mylechreest instantly." "Where can we take him?" said somebody. "They keep a room for him at Elm Cottage," said somebody else. "No, not there," said Jem-y-Lord. "It's nearest, and there's no time to lose," said the sergeant. Then they lifted Philip, and carried him as he lay, in his wig and gown as Deemster, to the house of Pete.
At the next moment it drew up at Philip's door, its occupant alighted, and then it swung about and moved away. "It was the young Deemster," said a girl to her companion, as she went skipping past. Pete had seen the tall, dark figure, bent and feeble, as it walked heavily up the steps. "Truth enough," he thought, "there's nothing got in this world without paying the price of it."
The window shutters were up to keep out the daylight; candles were burning in the necks of bottles on the mantelpiece; a fire smouldered in a grate littered with paper and ashes; a coarse-featured man was eating ravenously at the table, a chop-bone in his fingers, and veins like cords moving on his low forehead and the Deemster himself, judge of his island since the death of Iron Christian, was propped up in a chair, with a smoking glass on a stool beside him, and a monkey perched on his shoulder.
The commission which I received I have returned. I have, therefore, no right to be installed as Governor. Also, I have resigned my office as Deemster, and, though my resignation has not yet been accepted, I am, in reality, no longer in the service of the State." The people looked at the speaker with eyes that were full of the stupefaction of surprise. Somebody bad risen at the back of the bench.
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