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Gifford was to follow half an hour later, when they would have a conference with the Morristons and afterwards, with their approval, go into the town and see the chief constable on the subject. If Gifford was doubtful as to the expediency of the plan, and it was with a considerable amount of hesitation that he brought himself to agree to it, he seemed to have no good reason to urge against it.
There was one package of letters where the name was "Gertrude;" there were but few of these, and, had Gifford looked, he would have seen that the last one, blistered with tears, said that her father had forbidden further correspondence, and bade him, with the old epistolary formality from which not even love could escape, "an eternal farewell."
If the people who say they believe in hell were in dead earnest, the world would have been converted long ago." "He is a wicked man!" Lois cried inconsequently. But Gifford shook his head. "No, he is not. And more than that, Lois, you ought to consider that this belief of Ward's, if it is crude, is the husk which has kept safe the germ of truth, the consequences of sin are eternal.
Such cases are those of Archdeacon Butt at Blenheim, James Leighton at Nelson, Archdeacon Stocker at Invercargill, Algernon Gifford at Oamaru, Archdeacon Dudley at Rangiora.
Howe," Dick answered, "and he certainly has never taken it upon himself to meddle in my affairs to the extent of asking me about them." "Nevertheless," said Gifford, with ominous gentleness, "he must feel surprise at your departure. That your business should take you away at this time, Mr. Forsythe, is unfortunate."
"Shall you be going to Wynford Place, sir?" the landlord inquired as he glanced at the clock. Gifford hesitated a moment. "Yes. Let me have a fly in a quarter of an hour," he answered. But it was more than double that time when he came down dressed for the dance. The old house looked picturesque enough in the moonlight as he approached it.
There was a closer contact in Edinburgh with South Africa than elsewhere, owing to the constant presence at that University of a large number of students from South Africa. A public meeting was held in Edinburgh, among the speakers whereat were Bishop Cotterill, who had lived many years in South Africa; Mr. Gifford, who had been a long time in Natal; Professor Calderwood, and Dr.
Of his contemporaries, scarcely any had so much of his admiration as Mr. Gifford, who, considered as a poet, was merely Pope, without Pope's wit and fancy, and whose satires are decidedly inferior in vigour and poignancy to the very imperfect juvenile performance of Lord Byron himself. He now and then praised Mr. Wordsworth and Mr. Coleridge, but ungraciously and without cordiality.
But he himself cannot do anything except through the power of God, who, sometimes for vengeance upon His enemies and sometimes to try His own people, permits the Evil One to do harm. Gifford of course never made the impression that Scot had made.
"I've always maintained they were made for each other." But Gifford Woodhouse's pleasant gray eyes, under straight brown brows, showed none of the despair of an unsuccessful lover; on the contrary, he whistled softly through his blonde moustache, as he came along the rectory lane, and then walked down the path to join the party in the garden.
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