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Updated: May 11, 2025
Hedley and E walked on at a great pace after the other two, beyond my powers, and I sauntered on quietly alone, only meeting a few men, belonging to the railway in most cases and working on the line, which is the only road which one can walk on comfortably here, and I got three miles, but then a horrid bridge stopped me, as I hate walking on planks far apart over a height without a helping hand.
He was deeply engrossed, and his name was spoken twice in his ear before he turned round. A small, somewhat shabby-looking man, with tired eyes and more than a day's growth of beard upon his chin, had accosted him. "Mr. Brott, sir. A word with you, please." Brott held out his hand. Nevertheless his tone when he spoke lacked heartiness. "You, Hedley! Why, what brings you to London?"
"But I feel quite strong again, father," pleaded Fred. "You are too anxious about me." "Too anxious, my boy? No, I think not. Well, you will have to try and sit your horse again, even if you are a non-combatant." "Which way shall we retreat?" asked Fred. "Retreat? Who said anything about retreat?" cried a stern voice, and General Hedley entered the room.
"You see," began Eleanor and paused to marshal her facts. "He graduated this year. Then he's been in training at Cambridge. Properly he'd have a fellowship. He took the Natural Science tripos, zoology chiefly. He's good at philosophy, but of course our Cambridge philosophy is so silly McTaggart blowing bubbles.... His father's a doctor, Sir Hedley Riverton."
"If you speak to General Hedley, he will listen to you, for Sir Godfrey is your oldest friend; and think, father, how horrible it would be if the Markhams were to be killed." The brows appeared to be knit more closely, and Colonel Forrester's gaze seemed fierce enough to wither his son.
Hedley and I and Gibson came here on Thursday, just to see the place, of which I had heard so much, and to acknowledge the offered civilities of some of the people there. We left Dick at Boston not very well, and indeed, I have been quite a wretch lately.
To Fred's great satisfaction, the sturdy, serious-looking followers of General Hedley treated the Hall and its surroundings with a fair amount of respect. They did not scruple to make bountiful use of the contents of the garden; and, as far as they went, revelled on the productions of the dairy, while they one and all declared the cider to be excellent.
She thought a little on this subject and then decided Ian ought to be talked to about it. Her lover's neglect of the Sabbath was the next question, for Thora was a true and loving daughter of the Church of England. Episcopacy was the kernel of her faith. She believed all bishops were just like Bishop Hedley and that the most perfect happiness was found in the Episcopal Communion.
Sir Hedley was made a member of the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee and with Kitchener helped to face England's huge problem of raising a volunteer army. How was it to be done? Hardly had the new War Chief warmed the chair in his office down in Whitehall, than Le Bas came to him with this suggestion: "The quickest way to raise the new army is to advertise for men."
She laughed outright, then gave him her hand as she said, "Your honesty insures that we can be very good friends; but I don't wish to hear anything more about suits which are close of kin to lawsuits." He looked very dejected, feeling that he had blundered fatally in his precipitation. "Come now, Hedley, be sensible," she resumed, half laughing, half serious.
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