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Trafford turned about with an impatient word upon his lips, but it was not spoken. It seemed to him as if his dead brother stood before him, as he had known him when they were boys together, and that those words were meant for a reproach. He put out his hand and touched Noll's shoulder, as if to make sure that it was really his nephew and no vision.
"Nuffin but fish ter live on, an' not de greatest plenty o' dat," Hagar had said, standing beside Trafford's chair in the library. The man started, as a sudden remembrance of forgotten duties came into his mind. He had neglected to look after those Culm people, he had forgotten about Noll's school and its pupils. But it should be so no longer, he resolved at once.
It was poor Brother Noll's boy, after all, he thought, and he could not make his heart quite hard enough to refuse him a home. So, when Skipper Ben returned to Hastings with his next cargo of fish, he carried a letter hidden away under his pea-jacket, and this was what it contained: "CULM ROCK, Sept. 12th. "To Noll Trafford: "Come; you are welcome.
"Why, how now, neighbour," said Sir Geoffrey, as if he had at that moment recognised him for the first time, "what makes you ride so sharp this morning? Are you not afraid to harm your horse, or spoil your spurs?" "Sir Geoffrey," said the Major, "I have not time for jesting I'm on the King's affairs." "Are you sure it is not upon Old Noll's, neighbour?
No recruiting sergeants will ever raise such an army as did Noll's preachers in the eastern counties, where the promise of a seat by the throne was thought of more value than a ten-pound bounty. I would I could pay mine own debts with these same promises. 'I should judge from your speech, sir, our host observed, 'that you are not one of the sectaries.
Then from Noll's lips came a shrill cry, which rose above the thunder and battering of the sea; and, whether from terror or whether from the fact that the dear name was so warm and vivid in his heart at that moment, the cry was not "Help!" but, "Papa, papa!"
He doesn't want me to go to Culm, he says, and he dislikes the Culm people." Hagar did not know what consolation to offer for this unfavorable prospect. She could not counsel the boy to disobey his uncle's commands, neither did she accept the idea of having Noll's projects defeated for lack of permission to carry them out.
Trafford's forehead began to wrinkle and slowly gather the shade of gloom which seemed always hovering about him, even in his most cheerful moments; but before it had time to cover the man's brow, and before he could utter a refusal, Noll's hand was endeavoring to smooth away the wrinkles, and he was saying, "There, don't say 'No, don't, Uncle Richard!
However, I am glad the young man is no sneaker; for, were a man of the devil's opinion in religion, and of Old Noll's in politics, he were better open on it full cry, than deceive you by hunting counter, or running a false scent. Come wipe thine eyes the fray is over, and not like to be stirred again soon, I trust."
"We thought ye'd fallen a victim to Noll's myrmidons!" It was of a truth a gay and merry company that stood, and moved, chatted and laughed, within the narrow confines of that small second-floor room in the gloomy house in Bath Street. The walls themselves were dingy and bare, washed down with some grayish color, which had long since been defaced by the grime and dust of London.
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