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The Hollingford election interested Dymchurch so little that he had never inquired as to its result; in truth, he had forgotten all about it. "I fear Mr. Lashmar is rather disappointing. Rumour says that the philosophical theory of life and government which he put before us as original was taken word for word from a French book which he took for granted no one would have read.
Three servants would not have been required if it had not been Mr. Gibson's habit, as it had been Mr. Hall's before him, to take two 'pupils, as they were called in the genteel language of Hollingford, 'apprentices, as they were in fact being bound by indentures, and paying a handsome premium' to learn their business.
I told as plump fat lies as you would wish to hear. I said I "was obliged to go into Hollingford on business," when the truth was there was no obligation in the matter, only an insupportable desire of being free from my visitors for an hour or two, and my only business was to come here, and yawn, and complain, and lounge at my leisure.
'I seek Lord Hollingford as I should seek such a man, whatever his rank or position might be: usher to a school, carpenter, shoemaker, if it were possible for them to have had a similar character of mind developed by similar advantages. Mr. Goodenough is a very clever attorney, with strong local interests and not a thought beyond.
What did you think of the way from Hollingford?" To this question she seemed to expect an answer, and Dyce, who was beginning to command himself, met her gaze steadily as he spoke. "There's very little to see till you come to Shawe. It's a pretty village or rather, it was, before someone built that hideous paper-mill."
"Will you tell me its provisions?" asked Lashmar, deliberately. "In confidence. It won't be made public till the executors Sir William Amys and Mr. Kerchever have proved it. I never knew a more public-spirited will. Hollingford gets a hospital, to be called the Lady Ogram; very generously endowed. Rivenoak is to be sold, and the proceeds to form a fund for a lot of Lady Ogram Scholarships.
Goodenough and her niece, who occupied the front seat of the carriage; so that altogether the fact of sitting down at all was rather doubtful, and to add to her discomfort, Molly felt herself to be very conspicuously placed in the centre of the carriage, a mark for all the observation of Hollingford.
Sir William and Lady Amys he knew to be still in the house of mourning; he presumed that May Tomalin had not gone away, and it taxed his imagination to picture the terms on which she lived with Constance. At the funeral, no doubt, he would see them both; probably would have to exchange words with them an embarrassing necessity. Hollingford, of course, was full of gossip about the dead woman.
A sequel of the story was the ultimate settling at Hollingford of Mr. Bride's sister and her husband, where, to this day the woman, for some years a widow, supported herself by means of a little bakery. "I hadn't seen Lady Ogram for a long time," Constance pursued, "and when I got my place of dispenser at Hollingford hospital, I had no idea of recalling myself to her memory.
Hollingford, partly under a canopy of smoke, lay low by its winding river, and in that direction Dyce most frequently turned his eyes. "I felt very much obliged to you," he said, "for your carefully written letter. But wasn't there one rather serious omission?" Speaking, he looked at Constance with a humorous twinkle of the eye. She smiled. "Yes, there was. But, after all, it did no harm."
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