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Now, it was a warm morning and baby was heavy and the avenue was dull, and mamma much preferred to stay in the house and sew the trimming on to a new and pretty dress. 'Must I really? Kitty you are a hard-hearted mamma to make me do it, and Mrs. Fairbairn hoped her play-parent would relent. But she did not, and only answered with a meaning look.
Bloomfield himself, it was plain, felt its force, and as to the more vehement members of Parrett's, it considerably damped their ardour. "Old man," said Fairbairn that evening to his friend the captain, "you struck a really good blow for the school this afternoon. I don't know how you managed to pitch on just the right thing to say, as you did. Things will come all right, take my word for it.
In this last unfortunate category was the ancient and respected firm of Fairbairn Brothers of Brisport. Several causes had led up to this disaster, though Don Diego's debut as a corkcutter had brought matters to a head. When a couple of generations back the original Fairbairn had founded the business, Brisport was a little fishing town with no outlet or occupation for her superfluous population.
Major Fairbairn pondered a minute and told me, with rather a rueful countenance. "Let us go there first," I said. "It is an old story to you; but I never saw such a thing. I want to see it and understand it, if I can." "Ladies like to see it, I know," said the major. "You think, we cannot understand it?" "I don't see how you should." "I am going to try, Major Fairbairn.
He affirmed what was in him no abstract doctrine, but the most concrete of all realities, Incarnated in the person and passion of Jesus Christ, drawing from Him its eternal and universal significance." Fairbairn, "The Place of Christ in Modern Theology," page 159.
Fairbairn, and from half-past eight in the morning till six at night had, as he says, 'to file and chip vigorously, in a moleskin suit, and infernally dirty. At home he pursued his studies, and was for a time engaged with Dr. Bell in working out a geometrical method of arriving at the proportions of Greek architecture.
Fairbairn was arraying himself in his boating things, and greeted his friend cheerily. "Hullo, Riddell, here's an early start for you!" "Yes," said Riddell; "I couldn't sleep very well, so I thought I might as well get up." "Best thing for you. But why haven't you your flannels on?" "I'm not going out," said Riddell. "Besides, I don't believe I have flannels," added he.
He's the best man they could have picked out. I tell you what, Gilks, you'd better go and apologise and see if you can't get back into the boat. Who could have believed you'd be such a fool! Go at once, for goodness' sake." Gilks, who saw his own mistake fully as well as his friend, obeyed. He found Fairbairn in his study with Riddell. The former seemed not at all surprised to see him.
"Well rid of him," said Fairbairn, as soon as he had gone. "Yes. I don't think much of him," said Riddell, thinking as much of young Wyndham and his temptations as of the schoolhouse boat. "Well, old man," said Fairbairn, after a pause, "you steered awfully well when you once began. Whatever made you so shaky at first?" "My usual complaint," said Riddell, smiling.
For a long time that night Riddell sat in his study and pondered over the doctor's offer, and looked at it in all its aspects, and counted up all the cost. Then like a wise man he took counsel of a Friend. Ah! you say, he talked it over with Fairbairn, or Porter, or the acute Crossfield or, perhaps, he wrote a letter to old Wyndham?
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