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All was over at last, the final prayer was said the final benediction was spoken, and the mourners gradually dispersed. The Reverend Mr. Medwin, assisted by his young curate, had performed the ceremony, and before retiring to the vestry to take off his surplice, he paused by the newly-made grave to offer his hand and utter suitable condolences to Robin Clifford.
Mamie's next injunction was answer enough. "But BEFORE yes call." He took it in. "Call but decline. Good!" "The rest," she said, "I leave to you." And she left it in fact with such confidence that for a couple of days she was not only conscious of no need to give Mrs. Medwin another turn of the screw, but positively evaded, in her fortitude, the reappearance of that lady.
"How is Miss Miss Jocelyn?" he enquired, softly "I have only just heard the sad news " "She's not able to see anyone, sir," replied the maid, tremulously "at least I don't think so I'll ask. She's very upset " "Of course, of course!" said Mr. Medwin, soothingly "I quite understand! Please say I called! Mr. Clifford "
Miss Cutter confessed that it seemed at times as if one scarce COULD go on; but the advance was, in spite of this delicacy, still more delicately made made in the form of a banknote, several sovereigns, some loose silver, and two coppers, the whole contents of her purse, neatly disposed by Mrs. Medwin on one of the tiny tables.
The Reverend William Medwin, M.A., was a great personage, and his "cure of souls" extended to three other villages outlying the one of which Briar Farm was the acknowledged centre. "Good-morning!" he said, with affable condescension "I hear that Farmer Jocelyn died suddenly last night. Is it true?" Both men nodded gravely. "Yes, sir, it's true more's the pity! It's took us all aback."
It is plain that Lady Byron was during the later years of her life the victim of hallucinations, and that if Byron knew the secret, which he denies, he did not choose to tell it, putting off Captain Medwin and others with absurdities, as that "He did not like to see women eat," or with commonplaces, as "The causes, my dear sir, were too simple to be found out."
And about a year earlier he had been urging upon her a translation of Alfieri's Myrrha. Thomas Medwin, indeed, thought that the story which she was writing in 1819 was specifically based on Myrrha. That she was thinking of that tragedy while writing Mathilda is evident from her effective use of it at one of the crises in the tale.
Captain Medwin, who came late in the autumn of 1820, at his cousin's invitation, to stay with the Shelleys, has recorded many interesting details of their Pisan life, as well as valuable notes of Shelley's conversation. "It was nearly seven years since we had parted, but I should have immediately recognized him in a crowd.
I'll just go up to the house and see if I can be of any service, or or comfort " One of the men smiled darkly. "Sartin sure Farmer Jocelyn's as dead as door-nails. If so be you are a-goin' to Briar Farm, Mr. Medwin!" he said "Why, you never set foot in the place while 'e was a livin' man!" "Quite correct!" and Mr. Medwin nodded pleasantly "I make it a rule never to go where I'm not wanted."
It is obvious that when he found himself in the congenial company of Trelawny, Williams, Medwin, or the Gisbornes, he was simply happy; and nothing could be further from the truth than to paint him as habitually sunk in gloom.
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