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Mr Leadham did not care a straw for facts or figures, had no opinion of his own whether the lady or the reviewer were right; but he knew very well that the 'Evening Pulpit' would surely get the better of any mere author in such a contention. 'Never fight the newspapers, Lady Carbury. Who ever yet got any satisfaction by that kind of thing? It's their business, and you are not used to it.
The nuns, with their unintelligible virtues, and their very obvious bigotries and littlenesses; the slyness and absurdities of Father Bowles; the priestly claims of Father Leadham; the various superstitions and peculiarities of the many priests and religious who had passed through the house since she knew it alas! she hated them all! and did not know how she was to help hating them in the future.
During the last few weeks Mass had been said several times in her room; Father Leadham had given her Communion every day in Easter week; on Easter Sunday the children from the orphanage had come to sing to her; that Roman palm over the bed was brought her by Alan himself. The statuette of St. Joseph, too, was his gift. So she lay and talked through the day, cheerfully enough.
There would be something, but Lady Carbury was not to imagine that it could be very much. It did not often happen that a great deal could be made by a first book. Nevertheless, Lady Carbury, when she left the publisher's shop, did carry a cheque with her. She was smartly dressed and looked very well, and had smiled on Mr Leadham.
The place will come to our cousin, Richard Helbeck. He has plenty of money it will be very different some day." "Did did Father Leadham tell you that?" said Laura, after a while. "Yes. He admitted it. He said they had twice dissuaded him in former years. But now when I'm gone it'll be allowed." Suddenly Augustina opened her eyes. "Laura! where are you?" Her little crooked face worked with tears.
Of course you can do it as well as a great many others. But then that is saying so little! 'I thought I could make some money. 'I don't think Mr Leadham would hold out to you very high hopes; I don't, indeed. I think I would turn to something else. 'It is so very hard to get paid for what one does.
She never tired of asking questions about the Jesuits their training, their rules, their occupations. She could not remember that she had ever seen one till she made acquaintance with Father Leadham. They were alternately a mystery and a repulsion to her. Helbeck smilingly told her that she was no worse than the mass of English people. "They have set up their bogey and they like it."
'Or get Father Leadham to talk to her. What's the good of a man like Father Leadham so learned, and such manners! if he can't talk to a girl like Laura? But no, Alan won't. He says we must let her alone and wait God's time! And there's no altering him, as you know."
In the village store it was conceded that Pap's room, rain or shine, was better than his company. His name was never mentioned till it began to fall from Sissy Leadham's delirious lips. The schoolmarm first told me that the child was asking for Andrew Spooner, moaning, wailing, shrieking for "pore old Pap." George Leadham was distracted.
Why, Father Leadham can persuade me he must!" She drew away from him, holding him, almost fiercely, by her two small hands. "I am nothing but an ignorant, foolish girl. And he has persuaded so many wise people you have often told me. Oh, he must he must persuade me!" She hid herself again on his breast. Then she looked up, feeling the tears on his cheek.
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