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Updated: June 17, 2025
That is just what I mean, now. If you had been in his place, I rather think you would have done what was prudent you would not have run into anything so useless as giving that vote, when there was not another person in Deerbrook to vote the same way. You would not, Enderby." "I trust I should, if I had had Margaret to keep me up to my duty."
It must be a painful thing to you to find my neighbours beginning to dislike me; to have the tradespeople impertinent to you on my account; to see my patients leave me, and call in somebody from a distance, in the face of all Deerbrook.
"My question may seem to you to savour strongly of dissent; but I must inquire whether it is absolutely necessary for bad news to be announced to all Deerbrook every day, and almost all day long. However far we may be from objecting to hear it in ordinary times, should not our first consideration now be for the living?
Under cover of Mr Rowland's presence occasionally, and to-day of Philip's, she ventured to say that she thought the Greys a very fine family, and kind neighbours to her. "And much looked up to in Deerbrook," added Philip. "And a great blessing to their poor neighbours," said his mother. "Dr Levitt respects them for their conscientious dissent," observed Philip.
They were exposed to great danger from example in Deerbrook, like most children brought up in small villages, he supposed: and he owned he dreaded the idea of his children growing up the scourges to society that he considered foolish and malignant gossips to be. "Do sit down, Margaret," said Maria.
He would not believe anything they said, however, about their reasons for fear. It was nonsense it was Deerbrook talk.
They were all happy and satisfied then, though there were people in Deerbrook who found fault with their arrangements, and were extremely scandalised when it was found that no nurse had arrived from Blickley, and that Morris took the charge of her mistress upon herself.
In 1839 she published "Deerbrook," her best novel, which the critic will always value as a vigorous picture of some aspects of English life. The tone is high and sustained. As for the characters, they are not very strongly individualized; but, on the other hand, the descriptions are clear and forcible, while the interest of the plot is deep and wholesome.
I have called two or three men to account, and shaken my whip over one or two more with excellent effect. If there were none but bullies among my enemies, I could easily deal with them." "But cannot we go away, and settle somewhere else?" "Oh, no! Wherever I might go, it would soon be understood that I had been obliged to leave Deerbrook, from being detected in body-snatching and the like.
There is no other resemblance between them, except that they are both overpowered made rather cowardly by the circumstances of their environment. Once departing from their plan of keeping the peace, they would be plunged into quarrel. They view things so differently, from the differences of their minds, that their only safety is in avoiding altogether all subjects of Deerbrook contention.
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