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As soon as he could quit the breakfast-table, Sir Peter hurried into his library and there gave himself up to the study of Kenelm's unwelcome communication.
He did not observe Kenelm's approach till within a few feet of him, and he then greeted his guest in listless accents, unlike his usual cheerful tones. "I have been visiting the man you have made so happy," said Kenelm. "Who can that be?" "Will Somers. Do you make so many people happy that your reminiscence of them is lost in their number?" Travers smiled faintly, and shook his head.
Kenelm's remarks were somewhat over the heads of his audience. But the son, taking them as a slur upon the enlightened spirit of the age, coloured up and said, with a knitted brow, "I hope, sir, that you are not an enemy to progress." "That depends: for instance, I prefer staying here, where I am well off, to going farther and faring worse." "Well said!" cried the farmer.
"We want to print the cream." "For the benefit of the school board -no, the board school." "Oh! oh! Valetta!" cried the general voice. "The thing is," explained Gillian, "that we must build a new school for the out-liers of St. Kenelm's, or 'my lords' will be down on us, and we shall be swamped by board schools." "Aunt Jane is frantic about it," said Dolores Mohun.
There is a society here formed upon that principle; the landlady says they are philosophers!" At the word "philosophers" Kenelm's crest rose as that of a practised hunter at the cry of "Yoiks! Tally-ho!" "Philosophers!" said he, "philosophers indeed! O ignoramuses, who do not even know the structure of the human tooth!
"'Delrio to Flight. Oh, they will know his name and address fast enough when it gets to Rock Quay." "He is the clergyman at St. Kenelm's," put in Vera, in explanation; "very very advanced Ritualist, you know." "Indeed!" was the answer. "Oh, yes, that he is.
Perhaps we may meet Kalliope, if the marble people come out at four or five. What's that bell? as a little tinkle was heard. 'That's St. Kenelm's! Oh! you would like to go there, and it would rest me; only there's Kunz. 'I should like to see it very much, said Gillian.
Sir Peter wished still more to see Cecilia Travers, in whom Kenelm's accounts of her had inspired a very strong interest. The day after his arrival in town Sir Peter breakfasted with Mivers. "Upon my word you are very comfortable here," said Sir Peter, glancing at the well-appointed table, and round the well-furnished rooms. "Naturally so: there is no one to prevent my being comfortable.
There was study in the forenoon, walks or cycle expeditions in the afternoon, varied by the lessons in music and in art, which Vera and Paula attended on Wednesdays and Fridays, the one in the morning, the other after dinner. It was possible to go to St. Andrew's matins at ten o'clock before the drawing class, and to St. Kenelm's at five, after the music was over.
"Miss Burrows!" sighed Clemmy, very scornfully. But Kenelm's attention was distracted from Clemmy's locket to a little ring which Lily had been persuaded by Mrs. Somers to try on, and which she now drew off and returned with a shake of the head. Mrs.
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