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"After all Mr Proctor's care in fitting the furniture, you would not, of course, think of removing it," said Mrs Morgan; "Mr Wentworth will take it as we did; and as for Mrs Scarsfield, if you like her, William, you may be sure I shall," the penitent wife said softly, in the flutter and tremor of her agitation.
"That is all settled satisfactorily," said Mr Morgan, "and now I must go to my work again. I thought, if you approved of it, I would write at once to Scarsfield, and also to Buller of All-Souls." "Do," said the Rector's wife and she too bestowed, in her middle-aged way, a little caress, which was far from being unpleasant to the sober-minded man.
"I guess that is so; I guess there is nothing under heaven worth making hell for, and that is what I have seen these last few weeks. I haven't been right up to the fighting-line I haven't been allowed but I have seen enough to make my heart bleed." "I agree with every word you say," and Bob's voice was almost tremulous. "Then why are you a soldier?" "Look here, Mr. Scarsfield," said Bob.
As for me, I'm going back to America on my crusade of peace." "Mr. Scarsfield," said Bob, "may I suggest something to you?" "Yes; what is it?" "That you go back to America, and arouse that great Continent to come and help us in this war for peace. I know your President professes to be a peace man. But think!
Hiram Scarsfield; "I read the account of what he did in the papers, and I am mighty glad that the authorities have allowed me to come here. I want to shake him by the hand." "Sir," he said, coming up to Bob, "whatever may be my views about war, I admire brave men, and you risked your life to save another.
Instead of preaching, 'Blessed are the peace-makers, they preach, 'Blessed are the war-makers, and they believe that the Almighty intends them to make war." "Yes," replied Mr. Scarsfield, "I must admit that. I have read those writers you mention; read them with a sad heart." "When I read them," said Bob, "I was obliged to throw them away from me, as if I had been touching unclean things.
He would have liked to toss the stocking out of the window, though it was his own, and the task of repairing it was one of a devoted wife's first duties, according to the code of female proprieties in which both the husband and wife had been brought up. "Yes," said the Rector, with a sigh. "The truth is, I have just got a letter from Harry Scarsfield, who was my pet pupil long ago.
Read the story of Louvain, of Malines; think of the outrages, cruelties, blasphemies, and then ask yourself, what could we have done?" "Yes," said the American; "but war think of what it has meant." "Is not there something worse than war?" said Bob. "What can be worse?" asked Mr. Hiram Scarsfield. "Violation of honour, of truth, of purity," said the young man earnestly.
"Yes," replied Bob, "I too have Quaker blood in my veins, and I too am convinced in my heart they are right." "And still you are a soldier," said the other, in astonishment. "Yes, I am a soldier, until this war is over. Look here, Mr. Scarsfield, do you believe you could ever convert Germany to your way of thinking?
Scarsfield," he said. "If you had seen what I have seen here during the last few weeks, you would know that the war has brought out many noble traits." "Yes, yes, that may be so, and I have come all the way from the States to see for myself.
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