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Updated: May 9, 2025
She could think of him without any shadow of anxiety, her mind for once at rest. And this she enjoyed. For it is possible to miss a person badly, long for their return ardently, yet feel by no means averse to a holiday from more active expenditure of love on their account. And Theresa Bilson pleasing thought! was, for the moment, absent also, having gone to tea with the Miss Minetts.
By following this route he would save quite half a mile on his homeward journey; since the Grey House, where he enjoyed the Miss Minetts' assiduous and genteel hospitality, is situate at the extreme end of Deadham village on the road to Lampit.
Fortunately, however, for her side of the campaign, Theresa emboldened by recapitulation of her late boastings at the Miss Minetts' tea-table hastened to put a gilded dome to her own indiscretion and offence. For nothing would do but Damaris must accompany her on this choir treat! She declared herself really compelled to press the point.
Gentility exuded from the Miss Minetts, and if it is permissible slightly to labour the simile their pores were permanently open. Owing both to her antecedent and existing situation, it may be added, Theresa Bilson was precious in their sight.
The man, by common consent was down; and, being down, the Miss Minetts jumped on him, pounded him, if terms so vulgar are permissible in respect for ladies so refined. For every sin of omission, committed against their womanhood by the members of his sex, they made him scapegoat unconsciously it is true, but effectively none the less. From being his slaves they became his tormentors.
With the assistance of the Miss Minetts, reinforced by a bribe of five shillings, Theresa Bilson procured a boy on a bicycle, early the following morning, to convey a note the twelve miles to Paulton Lacy Mr. Augustus Cowden's fine Georgian mansion, situate just within the Southern boundaries of Arnewood Forest.
He at once pitied and admired himself, not being a close critic of his own motives; telling himself he did well to be angry, while ignoring the element of personal pique which gave point and satisfaction to that anger. He was silent and reserved with the Miss Minetts at supper; and retired early to his own room to prepare a sermon.
Of precisely what followed their attempted violation of the privacy of those two cottages, even the Miss Minetts themselves could subsequently give no very coherent account.
Cripps and the Miss Minetts did not preclude from visiting The Hard, having called early on Monday afternoon also left early, being anxious to prove their civility of purest water, untainted by self-seeking, by ulterior greed of tea and cakes. It followed that Damaris found herself relieved of their somewhat embarrassed, though kindly and well-intentioned, presence before sunset.
To their reprehensible tendencies in this last respect the Miss Minetts could bear painful witness, as with hushed voices and entreaties the sorry tale might "go no further" they more than once confided to Theresa Bilson.
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