Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 12, 2025
Moxey's sphere of observation. Other acquaintance he had none in the capital, so it was clear that he must enter boldly upon the unknown world, and find a home for himself as best he might. Mrs. Peak could offer suggestions as to likely localities, and this was of course useful help.
'I knew nothing of Miss Moxey's illness, and the news of her will came to me as a surprise. In word or deed, I never sought more than her simple friendship and even that I believed myself to have forfeited. 'If I were to refuse this money, it would be in consequence of a scruple which I do not in truth respect.
In a hollow of grassy fields, where he least expected to encounter an acquaintance, it was his chance to come upon Christian Moxey, stretched at full length in the company of nibbling sheep. Since the dinner at Mr. Moxey's, he had neither seen nor heard of Christian, who, it seemed probable, was back at his work in Rotherhithe. As their looks met, both laughed.
Don't aim at but I beg your pardon; I don't know what right I have to lecture you in this way. And he broke off with his pleasant, kind-hearted laugh, colouring a little. They reached Mr. Moxey's house. In a garden chair on the lawn sat Miss Janet, occupied with a book.
It was called Spiritual Aspects of Evolution, and undertook, with confidence characteristic of its kind, to reconcile the latest results of science with the dogmas of Oriental religion. This work was in his mind when he spoke so vehemently at Moxey's; already he had trembled with an impulse to write something on the subject, and during his journey home a possible essay had begun to shape itself.
Twice had his education received a check from hostile circumstances: when domestic poverty compelled him to leave school for Mr. Moxey's service, and when shame drove him from Whitelaw College. In reflecting upon his own character and his lot he gave much weight to these irregularities, no doubt with justice. In both cases he was turned aside from the way of natural development and opportunity.
Conflict of reasonings and emotions made it difficult to answer Moxey's question. 'I must take time to think of it, he said, at length. 'Well, I suppose that is right. But well, I know so little of your circumstances' 'Is that strictly true? Peak asked. 'Yes. I have only the vaguest idea of what you have been doing since you left us. Of course I have tried to find out.
Godwin was strongly interested in this broken revelation; he found it difficult to understand Moxey's yearning for domesticity, all his own impulses leading towards quite a contrary ideal. To him, life in London lodgings made rich promise; that indeed would be freedom, and full of all manner of high possibilities! Each communed with his thoughts.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking