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"Dear me," said Mr. Newberry, deep in reflection, "so that when your trustees came to the meeting " "Exactly," said Dr. Boomer and something like a smile passed across his features for a moment "Dr. Dumfarthing had already sent away his telegram of acceptance." "Why, then," said Mr. Newberry, "at the time of our discussion tonight, you were in the position of having no minister." "Not at all.
"But she was not there!" he said. "No," answered Juliana, "but Mr. Dumfarthing was. I stayed and talked some time with him, waiting for her." The rector gave a sort of whistle, or rather that blowing out of air which is the episcopal symbol for it. "Didn't you find him pretty solemn?" he said. "Solemn!" answered his sister. "Surely, Edward, a man in such a calling as his ought to be solemn."
Juliana's face had flushed It was quite plain that she saw things in the Reverend Uttermust Dumfarthing as some one woman does in every man that no one else could see. The Reverend Edward was abashed. "I wasn't thinking of his character," he said. "I was thinking rather of his doctrines. Wait till you have heard him preach." Juliana flushed more deeply still.
But whatever may have been the effect of the presence of Catherine Dumfarthing, there is no doubt the greater part of the changed situation was due to Dr. Dumfarthing himself. Everything he did was calculated to please.
Catherine Dumfarthing did not join her father in his new manse. She first remained behind him, as the guest of Philippa Overend for a few weeks while she was occupied in packing up her things. After that she stayed for another two or three weeks to unpack them.
Altogether there were more kind things said of him in the three days during which he was taken for dead, than in thirty years of his life which seemed a pity. And after it all, at the close of the third day, Dr. McTeague feebly opened his eyes. But when he opened them the world had already passed on, and left him behind. Uttermust Dumfarthing
It was beyond us, though we had the consolation of knowing that with such a man as Dumfarthing the money made no difference." "And he has accepted the call?" "Yes. He accepted it today. He sent word to Mr. Dick Overend our chairman, that he would remain in his manse, looking for light, until two-thirty, after which, if we had not communicated with him by that hour, he would cease to look for it."
"What!" said the rector's sister, as they moved off again, "didn't you know? That's Catherine Dumfarthing!" When the Rev. Fareforth Furlong arrived home at the rectory he spent an hour or so in the deepest of deep thought in an armchair in his study. Nor was it any ordinary parish problem that he was revolving in his mind.
His nurse was telling me that this morning he was reaching out his hand for the newspaper, and seemed to want to read one of the editorials. It was quite pathetic," concluded Dr. Boomer, shaking his head. So the whole matter was settled, and next day all the town knew that St. Osoph's Church had extended a call to the Rev. Uttermust Dumfarthing, and that he had accepted it.
Furlong senior himself calculated, was scarcely sufficient to pay the overhead charge of collecting it. The presence of so many young men sitting in serried files close to the front was the only feature of his congregation that extorted from the Rev. Mr. Dumfarthing something like approval.
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