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So the caustic divine wrote, and the Rector of Great Keynes was heavy-hearted as he walked up and down and read.
It was all very strange, thought Anthony, but evidently here was some one who knew about him; the reference to Great Keynes made him think uneasily of Isabel and wonder whether any harm had happened to her, or whether any danger threatened.
What was happening, she half wondered to herself, that she should be riding like this on a spent horse, as if in some dreadful game, turning abruptly down lanes and rides, out across the high road, and down again another turn, with the breathing and creaking and jingling of others behind her? Years ago the two had played Follow-my-leader on horseback in the woods above Great Keynes.
There was a steel cap three or four feet below, and a pike-head; and at the sound of the latch a bearded face looked up. "I see you have a sentry there," said Mr. Buxton carelessly. "Ah! that is one of Mr. Maxwell's men." "Mr. Maxwell's!" said the other, startled. "Is he in this affair too?" "Yes; have you not heard? He came from Great Keynes this morning. Mr. Lackington sent for him." Mr.
"Tell us, Nick." Nicholas stood at the hearth, glaring and shifting. "This fellow knows he saw it; tell them, Dick." The man gave his account. He was one of the servants of Sir Nicholas' younger brother, who lived in town, and had been sent down to Great Keynes immediately after the execution that had taken place that morning. He was a man of tolerable education, and told his story well.
Keynes surveyed his intended with a lowering brow, and gruffly advised her to give over. "'Tis a pity to upset yourself so much," said Miss Vacher, with a shrill laugh. "I don't believe he be dead. Somebody 'ud ha' wrote if he was. The papers you can't credit what they say in them papers." "Oh, he's dead, sure enough," cried Jenny, suddenly recovering herself.
It is a great thing to have a priest again; but, if you will allow me to say so, it is a greater to have my friend and what a sister you have upstairs!" They were in Mr. Buxton's own little room on the ground-floor, and Isabel had gone to rest until supper. Anthony told him of the grim surprise that had awaited them at Great Keynes. "So you must forgive my sister if she is a little sad."
Then she went within doors again. It was a bitter ride back to Great Keynes for Hubert.
Dom Anthony hurried to it, his habit splashed with whitewash, for he had been cleaning the dormitory, and the four sat down together. It seemed that Nicholas had ridden over from Great Keynes to Overfield earlier in the afternoon, and had brought the news that a company of men had passed through the village an hour before, and that one of them had asked which turn to take to Lewes.
He had stayed with Hubert in the north, had yawned and stretched himself at Great Keynes, had gone to and fro among friends' houses, and had at last come to the conclusion, to which he was aided by a chorus of advisers, that he was wasting his time. He had begun then to look round him for some occupation, and in the final choice of it his early religious training had formed a large element.
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