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But the chief things that matter to all, does thee not know that a 'silly Quaker village' may realise them to the full more fully because we see them apart from the thousand little things that do not matter? I remember a thing in political life that mattered. It was at Heddington after the massacre at Damascus.
The poor people in big working-places like Heddington ain't much better than heathens, leastways as to most things that matter. They haven't got a sensible religion, not one that gets down into what they do. The parson doesn't reach them he talks about church and the sacraments, and they don't get at what good it's going to do them. And the chapel preachers ain't much better.
It had all the glamour of some distant place of pleasure and quiet joy, of happiness and ethereal being. It was, in fact, the far-off mirror of the flaming furnace of the great Heddington factories.
The English girl! England rushed back upon him the love of those at home; of his father, the only father he had ever known; of Faith, the only mother or sister he had ever known; of old John Fairley; the love of the woods and the hills where he had wandered came upon him. There was work to do in England, work too little done the memory of the great meeting at Heddington flashed upon him.
But the distance between Brixton Deveril and Glastonbury seems too great to be accomplished by a large body of men along indifferent roads in a single day; and by many authorities "Ethandune" is identified with Edington, near Westbury, or Heddington, W. of Melksham, both in Wilts.
The English girl! England rushed back upon him the love of those at home; of his father, the only father he had ever known; of Faith, the only mother or sister he had ever known; of old John Fairley; the love of the woods and the hills where he had wandered came upon him. There was work to do in England, work too little done the memory of the great meeting at Heddington flashed upon him.
These words were haunting Hylda's brain when the telegram from the Duchess of Snowdon came. They followed her to Heddington, whither she went in the carriage to bring her visitor to Hamley, and kept repeating themselves at the back of her mind through the cheerful rallying of the Duchess, who spread out the wings of good-humour and motherly freedom over her.
"One day thee was in Devon one of the women was taken ill. They sent for me because the woman asked it. She was a Papist; but she begged that I should go with her to the hospital, as there was no time to send to Heddington for a nurse. She had seen me once in the house of the toll- gate keeper.
He was once a sailor and a fighting man." A look of blank surprise ran slowly along the faces of the Elders. They were in a fog of misunderstanding and reprobation. "While yet my father" he looked at Luke Claridge, whom he had ever been taught to call his father "shared the great business at Heddington, and the ships came from Smyrna and Alexandria, I had some small duties, as is well known.
He had no inherent greatness, no breadth of policy. With less responsibility taken, there would be less trouble, national and international that was his point of view; that had been his view long ago at the meeting at Heddington; and his weak chief had taken it, knowing nothing of the personal elements behind.
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