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Various aunts in various stages of resigned poverty bore off his family to separate destinations, and the great Rectory house which had for so long mocked his two hundred a year, stood empty, waiting to swallow up its next victim. Only in Joanna Godden's breast did any stir remain. For her at least the fading out of Mr.
And yet it was all rather beautiful in a kind of fashion, every face turned one way, and a tremendous hush except for poor old Godden's blowing of his nose with his enormous red handkerchief; and the soft darkness up in the roof, and down in the pews; and the sunlight brightening the South windows.
There was a lot of dipping for sheep-scab on the Marsh that August, and it soon became known that several of Joanna Godden's sheep and lambs had died after the second dip. "That's her valiant Socknersh again," said Prickett "guv 'em a double arsenic dip. Good sakes! That woman had better be quick and marry him before he does any more harm as her looker."
The rest of the company followed, and were ushered into their places to the accompaniment of Ellen's shrieks, which they pretended not to hear. "Mr. Pratt, will you take the end of the table?" said Joanna to the scared little clergyman, who would almost have preferred to sit under it rather than receive the honour which Miss Godden's respect for his cloth dictated. "Mr.
The opportunity was given him sooner than he expected. Walking up the High Street in quest of some quiet place for luncheon every shop and inn seemed full of thick smells of pipes and beer and thick noises of agricultural and political discussion conducted with the mouth full he saw Miss Godden's trap waiting for her outside the New Inn.
It was for fellowship and fun that she hungrily longed as she sat under the green lamp-shade of the Woolpack's parlour, and discoursed on servants and the price of turkeys with Mrs. Jupp, who was rather constrained and absent-minded owing to her simultaneous efforts to price Miss Godden's gown. Now and then a dull roar of laughter came to her from the Club room.
Symons's The Romantic Movement in English Poetry. Beers's English Romanticism. Phelps's Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement. Nutt's Ossian and Ossianic Literature. Jusserand's The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare. Cross's The Development of the English Novel. Dobson's Samuel Richardson. Dobson's Henry Fielding. Godden's Henry Fielding, a Memoir. Gosse's Life of Gray.
Ellen's position as Squire Joanna Godden's sister was much better than if she were living by herself in some small place on a small income. Her brief adventure into what she thought was a life of fashionable gaiety had discouraged and disillusioned her she was slowly slipping back into the conventions of her class and surroundings.
When she had first married she had not thought it would be difficult to get herself accepted as "county" in the new neighbourhood, but she had soon discovered that she had had far more consequence as Joanna Godden's sister than she would ever have as Arthur Alce's wife.
Joanna Godden's temper might be bad, but her whisky was good. He wondered if the one would make up for the other to Arthur Alce or whoever had married her by this time next year. Mr. Huxtable was not alone in his condemnation of Joanna's choice. The whole neighbourhood disapproved of it.
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