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If you are a gentleman you will not; and if you are not a gentleman, I have got L10 in my purse, which you shall have when I am safe at Tor-Hadham. Don't hesitate: my whole life is at stake!" And the boy began once more to sob. Kenelm directed the pony's head towards Tor-Hadham, and the boy ceased to sob. "You are a good, dear fellow," said the boy, wiping his eyes.
Saunderson seated themselves in the honeysuckle arbour: the girls and the advocate of progress stood without among the garden flowers. It was a still and lovely night, the moon at her full. The farmer, seated facing his hayfields, smoked on placidly. Kenelm, at the third whiff, laid aside his pipe, and glanced furtively at the three Graces.
And for Wilfred, the representative of a house which had ruled them for centuries, the son of their lamented lord, who had died so bravely at Senlac, they would one and all, if necessary, lay down their lives. On the morrow, at eventide, Father Kenelm returned from Aescendune, horror struck, and brought the news of the burning of the abbey and the lamentable fate of his brethren.
Chillingly; and in thanksgiving to God does there not blend usefulness to man, and such sense of pastime in the usefulness as makes each day a holiday?" Kenelm looked up into the quiet face of this obscure pastor's wife with a startled expression in his own.
"It is Tom Bowles," whispered Jessie, and instinctively she twined her arm into Kenelm's; then, as if on second thoughts, withdrew it, and said, still in a whisper, "Go back now, sir; do." "Not I. It is Tom Bowles whom I want to know. Hush!" For here Tom Bowles had thrown down his pipe and was coming slowly across the road towards them. Kenelm eyed him with attention.
He presented the locket to Clemmy with brief kindly words which easily removed any scruple she might have had in accepting it; and, delighted with her acquisition, she bounded off to the vicarage, impatient to show the prize to her mamma and sisters, and more especially to Miss Mary Burrows, who was coming to lunch with them. Kenelm walked on slowly by Lily's side. "You have a good heart, Mr.
Kenelm gave her a brief direction about his portmanteau, and then passed into the back parlour, where her husband was employed on his baskets, with the baby's cradle in the corner, and its grandmother rocking it mechanically, as she read a wonderful missionary tract full of tales of miraculous conversions: into what sort of Christians we will not pause to inquire.
Cleveland, like most old bachelors, was prudently afraid of cold; so he excused himself, and stayed behind. He was talking to Evelyn about the Digbys, and full of anecdotes about Sir Kenelm at the moment the rest departed so abruptly; and Evelyn was interested, so she insisted on keeping him company. The old gentleman was flattered; he thought it excellent breeding in Miss Cameron.
"I have no engagement for the next dance, and, as I am a little tired, I shall be glad of a reprieve." Kenelm sighed, and, with the air of a martyr stretching himself on the rack, took his place beside the fairest girl in the county. "You were at college with Mr. Belvoir?" "I was." "He was thought clever there?" "I have not a doubt of it."
"Nay," said he, "let us talk seated;" and placing himself on the crag, he made room for Kenelm beside him. "In the first place," resumed Travers, "I must thank you for having done a public service in putting down the brute force which has long tyrannized over the neighbourhood.
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