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This was Eastington, the habitation of Mr. Garland, steward to the proprietors of the Purbeck quarries. He immediately collected the workmen, and procuring ropes with all possible despatch, made the most humane and zealous exertions for the relief of the surviving people. Mr. Meriton made a similar attempt to that of the two others, and almost reached the edge of the precipice.
He was, until a couple of days ago, at the Grand Hotel, Monte Carlo, and I have no doubt is there yet." Doctor Glasson's face fell somewhat. "I thank you," he murmured. "It is a long distance." "A letter will reach him in less than two days." "Yes," said Glasson, and said no more. "But a letter addressed to him at Meriton would, of course, be forwarded.
Not far off was a country town, a "Meriton," the central gossiping place of the neighbourhood, and the abode of the semi-genteel. If a gentleman like Mr. Woodhouse lives equivocally close to the town, his "place" is distinguished by a separate name. There was no resident squire at Steventon, the old manor-house being let to a tenant, so that Jane's father was at once parson and squire.
I am weary of Meriton this year. I have found myself everywhere at a discount. Allan refuses my estate and myself. The minister and the kirk refuse my services as organist. And when I had a very kind idea in my head about Theodora, you make me feel as if I had been plotting treason against her, and against honor and everything else of good report.
The great doors of Meriton House stood open, and a soft-treading footman met him with bows and smiles, and lifted his cloak and luggage, and made him understand that he had again entered a life in which he was expected to be unable to wait upon himself. It gave him no trouble to accept the conditions; he fell at once into the lofty leisurely way of a man accustomed to being served.
At irregular intervals, as occasion served, he had gone into Edinburgh, and when there, he had always made an opportunity for writing to Meriton. Mary therefore concluded that he was staying in Edinburgh, and John Campbell did not fret much over the absence of a son who could be recalled easily in a few hours.
Rogers on gaining this station, was so nearly exhausted, that had his exertions been protracted only a few minutes longer, he must have sunk under them. He was now prevented from joining Mr. Meriton, by at least twenty men between them, none of whom could move without the imminent peril of his life.
But I saw myself only with Meriton's eyes it is one of the worst miseries of youth that one is always trying to be somebody else. I had meant to be a Meriton I saw I'd better go home and study law....
I haven't called, for instance, at the Orphanage though I intend to. Glasson's not at home. He was down in my neighbourhood yesterday afternoon, nosing around for information." "Then he knows the children are thereabouts?" "No, he does not. But has been pushing researches. He has learnt who is the boy's probable father, and where he lives at a place called Meriton.
The appearance of the Indiaman's cuddy and the gentlemen and lady passengers not that there were many of the latter must have raised curious doubts in his mind. Suddenly he jumped up and asked to what ship he had struck. "`To the Honourable East India Company's ship Exeter, answered Captain Meriton, with a bow which beat the Frenchman's.
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