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Hugh's affectionate heart and ready obedience gave way, and he took a solemn oath not to desert his canonry, and so went back to his parishing. But then came, as it naturally would come to so charming and vigorous a lad, the strong return of that Dame Nature who had been so long forked forth by his cloistral life. A lady took a liking to this heavenly curate.
It was being kept for the eldest son of the house, his mother explaining carelessly to Lord Fontenoy that she believed he was "Out parishing somewhere, as usual." However, with the appearance of the pheasants the door from the drawing-room opened, and a slim dark-haired man slipped in.
She must be alone think. She would have to write home. Her father would come to fetch her. Her aunt was beyond the reach of appeal. Her artist-life would be over. Everything would be over. She would be dragged back to the Parishing and the Mothers' meetings and the black-cotton-covered books and the Sunday School. And she would never have lived in Paris at all! She walked down the street.
On the contrary, he appeared to regard it in the light of a highly improbable and quite undesirable contingency." "He must be lacking in appreciation," murmured Stair mockingly, pinching her cheek as he passed her on his way to select a pipe from the array that adorned the chimney-piece. "Are you going 'parishing' this morning?" inquired Diana, as she watched him fill and light his pipe.
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