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"Let him find another cottage all the same," said Barron briefly. "I shall go round, if I do get back from Markborough, and have a talk with him this evening." There was silence for a little. Theresa was evidently sad. "Perhaps Lady Fox-Wilton would find him something," she said anxiously at last. "His mother was her maid long ago.
"No this afternoon. But there will be plenty to do this morning." He named two or three heads of the church party in Markborough on whom he must call. He must also see his solicitor, and find out whether the counsel whom the promoters of the writ against Meynell desired to secure had been already retained.
Suddenly, as a shaft of light from the descending sun fled ghostlike across the plain, touching trees and fields and farms in its path, two noble towers emerged among the shadows characters, as it were, that gave a meaning to the scroll of nature. They were the towers of Markborough Cathedral.
He did not know that she had seen anybody but himself and his boys since her arrival. But she had seen some one else. As the Rector walked along the street he had in his pocket a cutting from the Markborough Post, containing the report of the inquest, from which it appeared the Rector of course was well aware of it that Mr.
And indeed, as this handful of men settled down to the consideration of the agenda for a large conference to be held in Markborough the following week, there might have been discerned in six of them, at least, a temper that glorified both them and their enterprise; a temper of seriousness, courage, unalterable conviction, with such delicacy of feeling as befits men whose own brethren and familiar companions have become their foes.
"It is a most mysterious thing! Have you been able to verify the postmarks?" "So far as I know, all the letters were posted at Markborough." "No doubt by some accomplice," said the Bishop. He paused and sighed. Then he looked searchingly, though still hesitatingly, at his companion. "Mr. Barron, I trust you will allow me as your Bishop one little reminder.
It described a meeting summoned by the "Reformers' Club" of Markborough to consider the announcement that a Commission of Inquiry had been issued by the Bishop of Markborough in the case of the Rector of Upcote Minor, and that legal proceedings against him for heretical teaching and unauthorized services would be immediately begun by certain promoters, as soon as the Bishop's formal consent had been given.
It happened also to be the date on which the Commission of Inquiry into the alleged heresies and irregularities of the Rector of Upcote was holding its final meeting at Markborough. The meetings of the commission were held in the Library of the Cathedral, once a collegiate church of the Cistercian order.
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