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It seemed to him that the world had suddenly grown full of eyes, peering upon him from every side. The list was a depressing one, and not only because it included the names of Mrs Polsue and Miss Oliver. "It makes my heart sink," Mrs Steele confessed. "I hadn't realised till now, dear, how lonely we are after five years, too in this parish. Three out of every four are Nonconformists.
"Let Parson Polsue speak first, for to my knowledge the Major was bound for his lodgings when last seen." "I haven't set eyes on him," said Parson Polsue. "I saw him!" piped up a woman in the crowd. "I saw him about six this morning. He was walking along the foreshore towards Mr. Grandison's." At this everyone turned to the Curate; but he shook his head.
"I'm not hot in the least," hotly protested Miss Oliver. "I'm simply proving to you that you've made a mistake: which you could never in your life bear to be told. The money is English gold, with King George the Something's head on it: and that you can't deny, try as you may." "All the more reason why it shouldn't come through a German lottery," replied Mrs Polsue, examining the coin.
Now, I won't swear, but I'm morally certain that guineas haven't been what they call in circulation for years and years and years." "You're always seeing them in subscription lists," Miss Oliver objected. "Take our Emergency Fund 'Charles Pendarves Tresawna, Esq., J.P., twenty-five guineas." "I seem to remember that the Squire paid by cheque," said Mrs Polsue drily.
What else is a magistrate for?" "Well, dear, I don't know much about the law. But I've heard it laid down as a rule that every man is supposed to be innocent until you prove that he's guilty " "And I never could understand why," Mrs Polsue interjected; "seeing that five out of every six persons charged are found guilty.
"The sins of our enemy are evident. But if We say we have no sin, we shall deceive ourselves and the truth will not be in us." "Did you ever hear a feebler or a more idiotic sermon?" demanded Mrs Polsue of Miss Oliver on their way home down the valley. "If ever a man had his chance to improve an occasion " "Tut! I say nothing of his incapacity.
But the knowledge she derived from him concerning State secrets or high politics could, at the best, but be far from recent, because as a fact the pair had not been on terms of intercourse by speech or letter since her husband's decease twelve years ago. "I have been expecting it for a long while," asseverated Mrs Polsue. "Gracious! Why?" "You are panting. You are short of breath.
On his own showing it 'd lie between the Lord an' Scantlebury, the Sanitary Inspector. He'd no business to speak so pointed: an' I always hate personalities for my part. But I daresay Scantlebury won't mind, if it comes to his ears even " "Scantlebury!" exclaimed Mrs Polsue with a sniff. "He only got the job through his son's being a local preacher and him a freemason.
He took a hand in it to the extent of informing me that Mrs Penhaligon was under his charge, if you ever heard anything so brazen. . . . I have often wondered," added Mrs Polsue, darkly musing, "why Polpier has not, before this, become as one of the Cities of the Plain." "Have you?" asked Miss Oliver. "If I let such a thought trouble my head, I'd scarce close an eye when I went to bed."
Mrs Polsue as regularly took care to watch the operation. "The newspaper tells me," said she, "that this is likely to be a teetotal War." "Tell me another, ma'am!" answered Mr Latter in his unconventional way. "It would be an excellent thing for our troops in the field: and, if you ask my opinion, a little mortifying of the spirit would do the working classes of this country a deal of good.
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