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"You mean some one has told you of my employment at the bank." "A number of persons have told me. Surely you did not expect to keep THAT a secret in Denboro?" "Well, scarcely," I admitted, with a laugh. "That was known almost before I was sure of it myself. You should have seen Eldredge's face when I announced my intention. And Lute Mrs. Rogers' husband hasn't completely recovered yet.
There might be a scene in which Middleton and Eldredge come to a fierce and bitter explanation; for in Eldredge's character there must be the English surly boldness as well as the Italian subtlety; and here, Middleton shall tell him what he knows of his past character and life, and also what he knows of his own hereditary claims.
It was the belief of the neighborhood at least of some old men and women in it that the long period of Mr. Eldredge's absence from England had been spent in the search for some trace of those departing footsteps that had never returned.
I didn't; I kicked it into the brook. Then I walked on. But the remainder of my march was a silent one, without music. I did not whistle. The post-office was at Eldredge's store, and Eldredge's store, situated at the corners, where the Main Road and the Depot Road which is also the direct road to South Denboro join, was the mercantile and social center of Denboro.
Eldredge's life on the Continent; the old Hospitaller, possibly, may have told him this, from some secret malignity hereafter to be accounted for.
Simeon Eldredge kept the store, and Simeon was also postmaster, as well as the town constable, undertaker, and auctioneer. If you wanted a spool of thread, a coffin, or the latest bit of gossip, you applied at Eldredge's. The gossip you could be morally certain of getting at once; the thread or the coffin you might have to wait for. I scarcely know why I went to Eldredge's that morning.
The old Hospitaller may have gained his situation partly by proving himself a man of the neighborhood, by right of descent; so that he, too, shall have a hereditary claim to be in the Romance. Eldredge's own position as a foreigner in the midst of English home life, insulated and dreary, shall represent to Middleton, in some degree, what his own would be, were he to accept the estate.
Eldredge's remarks on the topics thus brought up, and at the sensibility which appeared to be disclosed by his delicate appreciation of some of the excellencies of those great masters who wrote their epics, their tender sonnets, or their simple ballads, upon canvas; and Middleton conceived a respect for him which he had not hitherto felt, and which possibly Mr. Eldredge did not quite deserve.
Unquestionably, the appointment of Middleton as minister to one of the minor Continental courts must take place in the interval between Eldredge's meeting him in the park, and his inviting him to his house. After Middleton's appointment, the two encounter each other at the Mayor's dinner in St.
Perhaps you and I are the crazy ones one of us, at any rate." All that day I worked hard. I did not go home for lunch, but sent Sam over to Eldredge's store for canned ham and crackers which I ate at my desk. It was a fairly busy day, fortunately, and I could always find some task to occupy my mind.
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