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"'Tis too much to ask, miss; 'twould be a constant charge, for wrong-doing is often a matter of a few moments, though the repentance for it may last a lifetime." "Roland is in London. He went yesterday. I do not expect him to come to St. Penfer again until the wedding. I assure you of this, Mr. Penelles." "Then your word for it, Miss Tresham. Take my little maid with you. She be my life, miss.
But if you do want a message, tell her she have broken her good father's life in two; and that I do blame myself I ever gave her suck!" Roland listened to these words with a scoffing air of great amusement; he looked steadily at Joan with a smile that was intolerable to her, then he raised his hat with an elaborate flourish and said: "Good-morning, Mrs. Penelles."
Well, she is going to work for me and for my pleasure and profit, John Penelles; going to make money for me to spend, John Penelles. My beautiful fisher-maid! I dare be bound she is dreaming of me now. Women! women! women! What dear little fools they are, to be sure!" He was quite excited and quite good-tempered now. A new plan was like a new fortune to Roland.
Fisher-folk have short names, or nicknames." "But, really, Denasia Penelles is a very distinguished name. A splendid one for the public." "Why not Denasia Tresham?" "Because, my dear, there are Treshams living in London who would be very angry at me if I put their name on a bill-board. The Treshams are a very proud family."
"O blesséd sounds of wiser life Contented with its day, How ye rebuke the inner strife That wears the soul away." "The Eden we live in is our own heart, And the first thing we do of our free choice Is sure to be sin." John Penelles was one of those strong religious characters whose minds no questions disturb, whose spiritual aspirations are never put out of breath.
She had no longer any need to hide the wounding look or doubtful word in a protesting attitude, as painful to her as it was offensive to others. Well, it is a very hard thing to rejoice with those that do rejoice; evidently in that little chapel it was easier for the worshippers to be sorry for the heathen than to be glad for their brother and sister Penelles.
He thought his plans over again, and then it was dark and he rose up to return home; but as he shook himself into the proper fit of his clothes and settled his hat at the correct angle, he laughed vauntingly and said: "I shall be even with you, John Penelles, before next Easter. I was not good enough for Denas, was I not?
There is the dislike rich girls have for low amours, and, worse still, the dreadfully Cornish habit fishers have of standing together. If you offend John Penelles or wrong him in the least, you offend and wrong every man in St. Penfer fishing quarter. Do not snap your fingers so scornfully, Roland; you would be no match for a banded enmity like that." "All this about Denas?"
And of course John found no minister in Exeter who had married Denas Penelles and Roland Tresham; and it never once struck him that Denas had been married in Plymouth and found no time to write until she reached Exeter. Neither did Joan think of such a possibility; yet when her husband came in without a word and sat down with a black, stubborn face, she knew that he had been disappointed.
Denas wondered that he did not come to see her, and yet she had a shy dislike to make inquiries about him. For the love of Tris Penrose for Denas Penelles had been the village romance ever since they were children together, and she feared that a word from her about him might set the women to smiling and sympathising and to taking her affairs out of her own hands.
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