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Helmsley watched her dignified exit with a curious sense of half-amused contrition. "What odd creatures some women are!" he thought. "Here's this sharp-tongued, warm-hearted hostess of a roadside inn quite angry because, apparently, an old tramp won't stay and do incompetent work for her!
There's very little drunkenness, and as a consequence, very little quarrelling. They are a good set of people typically English of England!" "If some millionaire were to leave every man, woman, and child a thousand or more pounds apiece, I wonder what would happen?" suggested Helmsley. "Their joy would be turned to misery!" said the clergyman "and their little heaven would become a hell!
A narrow turning by the market-house shows the torn and dishevelled fragment of the keep of Helmsley Castle towering above the thatched roofs in the foreground. The ruin is surrounded by tall elms, and from this point of view, when backed by a cloudy sunset makes a wonderful picture. Like Scarborough, this stronghold was held for the King during the Civil War.
Janetta noticed with a pang that his hair was greyer than it had been when last she went back to school. "We shall be glad to see her again at Helmsley Court," said Lady Caroline. "No, I won't get out, thank you. I have to get back to tea. Your daughter's box is in front. I was to tell you from Miss Polehampton, Mr.
Arbroath, and added a fresh touch of irritation to his temper. He turned at once upon the offending smoker. "So! You pretend to be poor!" he snarled, "And yet you can smoke a cigar that must have cost a shilling!" "It was given to me," replied Helmsley gently. "Given to you! Bah! Who would give an old tramp a cigar like that?" "I would!"
"I was getting anxious about you, David!" she said; "you aren't quite strong enough to be out in such a cold wind." Then she turned her eyes enquiringly on Reay, who lifted his cap while Helmsley explained his presence. "This is a gentleman who is staying in the village Mr. Reay," he said "He's been very kind in helping me up the hill and I said you would give him a cup of tea."
To enjoy the moment, and to make much of the moment while it lasts, is the very keynote of Nature's happiness, and David Helmsley found himself on this particular morning more or less in tune with the general sentiment.
"Nearly," answered Helmsley quietly "but not quite." Their looks met, and Tom's dark features relaxed into a smile. "You're fairly patient!" he said, "for it's hard enough to be poor, but it's harder still to be old. If I thought I should live to be as old as you are, I'd drown myself in the sea! There's no use in life without body's strength and heart's love."
Charlie evidently agreed to this proposition, for when Helmsley tucked him cosily under his arm, he settled down comfortably as though well accustomed to the position. He was certainly nothing of a weight to carry, and his new owner was conscious of a certain pleasure in feeling the warm, silky little body nestling against his breast.
"But you do know what it is," said Helmsley, powerfully moved by the touching simplicity of her confession of loneliness "There isn't a more loving heart than yours in the world, I'm sure!" She came and knelt down again beside him. "Oh yes, I've a loving heart!" she said "But that's just the worst of it! I can love, but no one loves or ever will love me now. I'm past the age for it.
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