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Dan and Biddy greeted him cautiously, for Eldred had filled their simple souls with suspicion. "He wants to compromise. He's afraid of our suit against him." As a matter of fact Dan would never put a dollar into the plan for a suit, and it had never gone beyond Eldred's talk and yet he had made them suspicious. Dan was forced to confess that Clement was becoming an "a-ristocrat."
Short cut across these three fields brings it down by half a mile. There: there's Mr Eldred's trap. A dog-cart drove up with two men in it, of whom Garrett, gazing back as he crossed the little station yard, easily recognized one. The fact that Eldred was driving was slightly in his favour for most likely he would not open the parcel in the presence of his servant.
He was devoted to Inga and enjoyed doing gratuitous favors for the doctor's family for her sake. Inga brought in two letters to Catherine, who joyfully dropped her darning and tore them open. "Belovedest Goldilocks;" the first began, in Hannah Eldred's writing, not much improved in the two years she and Catherine had been corresponding.
Eldred's fine literary taste and musical abilities made her a valuable acquisition. She soon became the centre about which it revolved. Was there a difficult part to be rendered, or a queen of beauty to be represented, Mrs. Eldred was sure to be chosen, and she gave herself with enthusiasm to the absorbing fascination. Mr.
These distracting Desmonds cheerfully and unconsciously refuted them all! But he accepted the thorns of the situation as toll paid for the privilege of an intimacy he would on no account have forgone, and endured them with the grim stoicism that was his. The Allegretto ended, Honour swung round on her stool, and set forth her Chumba project without reference to Eldred's threatened departure.
She had faced and accepted it during Eldred's absence; but had not found courage since his return to put it into words; had, in fact, with the revival of inspiration, thrust the knowledge aside, and deliberately tried to forget.
Such is the resolution of Algar and our other brave chiefs, and Eldred the ealdorman must not be the only one of the leaders to run from the fray." Edmund was deeply touched at his father's words, but the parental rule was so strict in those days that it did not even enter his mind to protest against Eldred's decision.
I thought you would receive a call soon to a wealthy church in a large city, but you never will make a reputation if you preach in this style." Mrs. Eldred's angry passions were raised to a high pitch, or she would not have spoken thus plainly. The sorely tried spirit of the man who listened could not repress a groan at the conclusion of this long tirade.
In her esteem, such shadowy probabilities had neither right nor power to stem the new imperious forces at work within her. It remains to add that Eldred's avowal had not shocked or repelled her as much as he had feared.
A half-acknowledged conviction of this truth was undermining Eldred's skin-deep cynicism; and it did not tend to alleviate his renewed sense of loss.
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