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Though I suspect "painful" in the Puritan vocabulary meant "painstaking," did it not? Cotton Mather called John Fiske, of Chelmsford, a "plaine but able painful and useful preacher," while President Dunster, of Harvard College, was described by a contemporary divine as "pious painful and fit to teach." Of two of the New England saints it was written:
"I am told that he has made an enemy of almost every man who had to work with him." "That's nothing. He did his work. . . . Like me." "He never counted the cost they say. Not even of lives." Renouard understood that they were talking of him. Before he could move away, Mrs. Dunster struck in placidly "Don't let yourself be shocked by the tales you may hear of him, my dear. Most of it is envy."
The rite over, when the bridegroom took the bride's hand to follow, as all were marshalled on their way, he knew not whither, she looked up to him through her dark eyelashes, and murmured, "They would not have it otherwise!" "Deem you that I would?" said the knight fervently, pressing her hand. "I deemed that you should know all who I am," she faltered. "My wife, the Lady of Dunster.
He was looking at the few words scrawled across the pink sheet with a heavy black pencil: "Make every enquiry in your neighbourhood for an American, John P. Dunster, entrusted with message of great importance, addressed to Von Dusenberg, The Hague. Is believed to have been in railway accident near Wymondham and to have been taken from inn by young man in motor-car.
Dunster, and then cut across by the short path through the fields, as far as I could understand him through the door. He seemed very much annoyed to hear that Mr. Dunster had not been at home all night; but he said I was to tell Mrs.
Roman coins have been found within it. The position commands a fine view, both landward and seaward. Timberscombe, a small wayside village, 3 m. S.W. of Dunster on the Dulverton road. Within is a small coloured rood-screen resembling that at Carhampton, but with staircase intact. In the churchyard is a restored cross.
Besides its stately churches, Somerset possesses some interesting specimens of mediaeval and Tudor domestic architecture. Ancient hostelries survive at Norton St Philip, Glastonbury, and Dunster. Castles are infrequent in the county, the chief remains being at Taunton, Dunster, and Nunney, and a few fragments at Stoke-Courcey, Harptree, Farleigh Hungerford, and Nether Stowey.
That is why I insist upon his making a complete study of my constitution and treating me in every respect as though I were indeed an invalid. I am really only fifty-nine years old. It is my intention to live until I am eighty-nine. An offence against the law of the nature you indicate might interfere materially with my intentions." Mr. Dunster struggled for a moment for breath.
"There was enough for everybody India for Russia, a time-honoured dream, but why not? Alsace-Lorraine and perhaps Egypt, for France; Australia for Japan; China and South Africa for Germany. Why not? You may laugh at it on paper but I say again why not?" "It didn't quite come off, sir," Gerald observed. "It didn't," Mr. Dunster admitted, "partly owing to you.
They passed along the corridor. The door of the room which Mr. Dunster had occupied was ajar. As though by common consent, they both stopped and looked in. The windows were all wide open, the bed freshly made. The nurse was busy collecting some medicine bottles and fragments of lint. She looked at them in surprise. "Mr. Dunster has left, sir," she told them. "We saw him go," Gerald replied.
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