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Dyceworthy pressed the tips of his fingers delicately together, and looked at her with a benevolent compassion, "and they call it witchcraft, yes! strange, very strange!
But up to this time, she had been, as it were, secluded from all eyes, a few haymakers and fishermen were the only persons of the male sex who had ever been within the precincts of Olaf Gueldmar's dwelling, with the exception of himself, Dyceworthy, who, being armed with a letter of introduction from the actual minister of Bosekop, whose place, he, for the present, filled, had intruded his company frequently and persistently on the bonde and his daughter, though he knew himself to be entirely unwelcome.
Dyceworthy meanwhile meekly raised his eyes, and folded his hands with a sort of pious resignation. "I have been set upon and cruelly abused," he said mournfully, "and there is no part of me without ache and soreness!" He sighed deeply. "But I am punished rightly for yielding unto carnal temptation, put before me in the form of the maiden who came hither unto me with delusive entrancements "
Dyceworthy entered his house, fatigued, perspiring, and ill-tempered at the non-success of his day.
Dyceworthy gave little thought to these fond and regretful fair ones; he was much too comfortable at Bosekop to look back with any emotional yearning to the ugly, precise little provincial town he had left behind him.
You are a witch! the village knows it Mr. Dyceworthy knows it! Mr. Dyceworthy says we shall be justified in the Lord's sight for wreaking evil upon you! Evil, evil be on those of evil deeds!" "Then shall the evil fall on Mr. Dyceworthy," said the girl calmly. "He is wicked in himself, and doubly wicked to encourage you in wickedness. He is ignorant and false why do you believe in such a man?"
"It is the sign of peace and salvation," she said steadily, "to me, at least. You waste your words, Mr. Dyceworthy; I am a Catholic." "Oh, say not so!" exclaimed the minister, now thoroughly roused to a pitch of unctuous enthusiasm. "Say not so. Poor child! who knowest not the meaning of the word used. Catholic signifies universal. God forbid a universal Papacy! You are not a Catholic no!
"Young woman," returned Mr. Dyceworthy with polite severity, "I regret to see that your manners stand in sore need of improvement. Your master's absence is of no importance to me. It is with the Froeken Thelma I desire to speak." Britta laughed and tossed her rough brown curls back from her forehead. Mischievous dimples came and went at the corners of her mouth indications of suppressed fun.
Errington, not desiring any further prolongation of the scene, managed to draw the irate bonde away, saying in a low tone "We've had enough of this, sir! Let us get home to Thelma." "I was about to suggest a move," added Lorimer. "We are only wasting time here." "Ah!" exclaimed Duprez radiantly "and Monsieur Dyceworthy will be glad to be in bed! He will be very stiff to-morrow, I am sure!
For lo, you yourself, Froeken Thelma," Dyceworthy started, "you yourself came hither unto my dwelling, a woman all unprotected, to a man equally unprotected, and who, though a humble minister of saving grace, is not proof against the offered surrender of your charms! Make the best of it, my sweet girl! make the best of it! You can never undo what you have done to-night."
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