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During the fortnight of Meynell's absence, while he and Alice Puttenham in the south of France had been following every possible clue in a vain search for Hester, and the Arches trial had been necessarily left entirely to the management of Meynell's counsel, and to the resources of his co-defendants, Darwen and Chesham, Mary had suffered much.
Then the fond mother comes to seek her child; she needs no tongue to tell her what has passed, for that fair young face is radiant with happiness, bright and pure as a star in heaven; and Henry Meynell's glance is full of fond and silent admiration. She bestows an approving blessing.
Afterward, he spent the evening, partly in writing urgently in Meynell's defence to certain of his own personal friends in the diocese, and partly in composing an anti-Modernist address, full of a sincere and earnest eloquence, to be delivered the following week at a meeting of the Church party in Cambridge. Meanwhile Cyril Fenton had also spent the evening in writing.
Meynell's peremptory voice reached her now and then, and she could not help hearing a sharp final demand that the truant should transfer herself at once to his escort. The girl threw him an odd look; she sprang to her feet, flushed, laughed, and refused. "Very well!" said Meynell. "Then perhaps, as you won't join us, you will allow me to join you.
Well, this brother declares that Meynell's inquiries have come to nothing, absolutely nothing, in the neighbourhood except that they have made people very angry. He has got no evidence simply because there is none to get! I imagine, indeed, that by now he has dropped the whole business. And certainly it is high time he did; or I shall have to be taking action on my own account before long!"
I thought it well to come to you in the first instance, because I know that you have taken some part lately in Meynell's campaign." "Ah!" thought Flaxman "now we've come to it!" Aloud he said: "By which I suppose you mean that I am a subscriber to the Reform Fund, and that I have become a personal friend of Meynell's? You are quite right. Both my wife and I greatly like and respect the Rector."
Dark as she knew Meynell's forebodings and beliefs to be, anxiety for Hester must sometimes be forgotten in a natural resentment for high aims thwarted, and a great movement risked, by the wicked folly of a girl of eighteen, on whom every affection and every care had been lavished.
She yielded to the dignity and charm of Meynell's character as she had done a thousand times before; but in the proud, unhappy look she bent upon him there were new and disquieting things prophecies of the coming womanhood, not to be unravelled. Meynell pressed her hand, and put it back upon the reins with a sigh he could not restrain.
And" Flaxman's countenance kindled "let me just remind you of this: if you want to strengthen Meynell's cause if you want to win him thousands of new adherents you have only to launch against him a calumny which is sure to break down and will inevitably recoil upon you!" The two men had risen.
He had come determined on a certain course, and the object of the visit had been, in truth, merely to convey to one of Meynell's supporters a hint of the coming attack, and some intimation of its strength. The visit had been in fact a threat a move in Barron's game. "That, of course, is a question which I cannot presume to decide," said Flaxman, with cold politeness. His manner changed instantly.
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