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She followed the others. Mr. Helbeck held the door open for her. "You will perhaps care to look at the frescoes," he said to her as she hurried past him. She nodded, and walked quickly away to the left, by herself. Then she turned and looked about her. It was the first time that she had entered a Catholic church, and every detail was new to her.
Laura dropped her head upon the window-sill, and the tears rushed into her eyes. "I know we all know what you have done and sacrificed for the faith," said the younger man with emotion. "You will not venture to make a merit of it," said Helbeck gravely. "For we serve the same ends only you perceive them more clearly and follow them more persistently than I."
In Helbeck of Bannisdale we have the world and life of Roman Catholicism displayed with a minuteness and a precision which I should have thought scarcely possible to one not "of the household of the faith". It is, indeed, an ideal world, a world that belongs to the past, for the Helbecks have all but passed away.
Denton was speaking, but now she approached the settle. Mrs. Denton threw a sour look at her, and flounced out of her way. Helbeck silently made room for her. As she passed him, she felt instinctively that his distant politeness had become something more pronounced. He left her questions to Augustina to answer, and himself thrust his hands into his pockets and moved away.
"There is something on my mind to say to you if I might be allowed to say it if the gratitude, the strong and filial gratitude, which I feel towards you for that, and much, much else," his voice shook, "might be my excuse " Helbeck was silent. Laura to her dismay heard the sound of steps. Mr. Williams had walked to the open door of the drawing-room and closed it. What was she to do?
The same remembrance flew through both. Absently and involuntarily, Helbeck shook his head, with a sad lifting of the eyebrows. The colour rushed into Laura's cheeks. "It must be something very simple," she said hurriedly.
Then out of sheer nervousness she blundered into the harshest possible answer. "Well, they said that Mr. Helbeck could do no different, that he did it to save his sister from knowing " "Knowing what?" said Laura. Polly declared that she wasn't just certain. "A set o' slanderin backbitin tabbies as soom o' them Catholics is!" But she believed they said that Mr.
"There is none which has done us more deadly harm in England," cried the Jesuit. "We forget that England is a baptized nation, and is therefore in the supernatural state." "I remind myself of it very often," said Helbeck, with a kind of proud submission; "and I judge no man. But my powers, my time, are all limited. I prefer to devote them to the 'household of faith."
What audacity! to expect her to steal out at night in the dusk, anyway to meet him him! She fed her wrath on the imagination of all the details that would belong to such an escapade. It would be after supper, of course, in the fast lengthening twilight. Helbeck and his sister would be in the drawing-room for Mr.
She believed Stephen had particularly disliked the mother, the widow of his cousin, who now owned the farm jointly with her son. "Well, no," said Helbeck dryly, "I don't suppose he and she would have had much in common." "Isn't she a dreadful Protestant Alan?" "Oh, she's just a specimen of the ordinary English Bible-worship run mad," he said, carelessly.
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