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Perhaps if Mark had not been educated at Haverton House, had not experienced conversion, had not spent those years at Chatsea and Malford, but like his fellow students had gone decorously from public school to University and still more decorously from University to Theological College, he might with his temperament have wondered if this red-brick alley closed to traffic at either end by beautifully wrought iron gates was the best place to prepare a man for the professional service of Jesus Christ.
HERMIONE COBLEY: Daughter of a cottager who takes in washing. MISS HARVEY: A guest, cousin to Mrs. Haverton, a Unitarian. MRS. HAVERTON is hemming a towel. FIDO is asleep on the rug. MRS. HAVERTON: My dear I hope I do not interrupt you Helen has given notice. Given notice? Who? Helen? Given notice? Bless my soul!
Lidderdale supposed in answer to her prayers, the solution was provided unexpectedly in the following letter: Haverton House, Elmhurst Road, Slowbridge. November 29th. Dear Grace, I have just received a letter from James written when he was at the point of death in Africa.
The principal gullies about Bendigo are Sailors's, Napoleon, Pennyweight, Peg Leg, Growler's, White Horse, Eagle Hawk, Californian, American, Derwent, Long, Picaninny, Iron Bark, Black Man's, Poor Man's, Dusty, Jim Crow, Spring, and Golden also Sydney Flat, and Specimen Hill Haverton Gully, and the Sheep-wash.
Mark had never had any intimate friends at Haverton House; there was something in its atmosphere that was hostile to intimacy. Cyril Pomeroy appealed to that idea of romantic protection which is the common appendage of adolescence, and is the cause of half the extravagant affection at which maturity is wont to laugh.
She continually shocked his dignity by prescribing medicine for him without regard to the presence of servants or visitors; and nothing gave her more obvious pleasure than to get Mark into the drawing-room on afternoons when dreary mothers of pupils came to call, so that she might bully him under the appearance of teaching good manners, and impress the parents with the advantages of a Haverton House education.
I only know that I won't go into Mr. Hitchcock's office. If you try to force me, I shall write to The Times about it." Such a threat would have sounded absurd in the mouth of a schoolboy before the Pomeroy business; but now Mr. Lidderdale took it seriously and began to wonder if Haverton House would survive any more of such publicity. When a few days later Mr.
Overhead, the larks, rising and falling upon their fountains of song, seemed to mock the way men worshipped Almighty God. Mark had not spent a more unhappy Easter since the days of Haverton House. He was oppressed by the sense of excommunication that brooded over the Abbey, and on the Saturday of Passion Week the versicles and responses of the proper Compline had a dreadful irony.
Indeed, once or twice lately I have been on the point of warning you that you must not get into the habit of supposing you will always find the onset of the world so gentle as here." "But naturally I don't expect to," said Mark. "I was quite long enough at Haverton House to appreciate what it means to be here."
Spaull, he was ordained about three years after Mark came to Slowbridge, and a week later he was run over by a brewer's dray and killed. Mark at the age of fifteen was a bitter, lonely, and unattractive boy. Three years of Haverton House, three years of Uncle Henry's desiccated religion, three years of Mr. Palmer's athletic education and Mr.
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