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"It all went off beautiful, my dear," Mrs Scatchard remarked to Mavis. "I'm glad," said Mavis. "We left him safe at the palace, and as there's nothing in the papers about anything going wrong, it must be all right." "Of course," Mavis assented.
Mr Scatchard was greasing his hair; gorgeous raiment was being packed into a bag; the final polish was being given to a silver trumpet. Both Mrs Scatchard and her niece, besides being cloaked and bonneted, wore an expression of grim resolution. Mr Scatchard had the look of a hunted animal at bay.
Old Welwyn-Baker calls himself a Christian, and so does his son. And I suppose the Rev. Scatchard Vialls calls himself a Christian! Let us have done with this disgusting hypocrisy! I say with all deliberation I affirm it that Radicalism must break with religion that has become a sham! Radicalism is a religion in itself. We have no right no right, I say to impose any such test as Mr.
All that was hopelessly dogged and stubborn in the man's moral nature seemed to have closed round his fatal passion, and to have fixed it unassailably in his heart. After that first interview in the cottage parlor no consideration would induce Mrs. Scatchard to see her son's wife again or even to talk of her when Isaac tried hard to plead her cause after their marriage.
Thus it happened that Isaac Scatchard returned to his old mother, seven years after the time of the dream at the inn, with an annual sum of money at his disposal sufficient to keep them both in ease and independence for the rest of their lives.
"Don't go back, Isaac don't go back!" implored Mrs. Scatchard, as he turned to go away, after seeing her safely seated again in her own room. "I must get the knife," he answered, under his breath. His mother tried to stop him again, but he hurried out without another word. On his return he found that his wife had discovered their secret departure from the house.
It was a bright sunny morning, and the little cottage parlor was full of light as Mrs. Scatchard, happy and expectant, dressed for the occasion in her Sunday gown, sat waiting for her son and her future daughter-in-law. Punctual to the appointed time, Isaac hurriedly and nervously led his promised wife into the room.
"The day I'm disgraced to the neighbourhood by a 'visitor' being turned out of doors." "I knew nothing of it," protested Miss Meakin. "And Mr Scatchard being a government official, as you might say." "Indeed!" remarked Mavis, who was itching to be off. "Almost a pillar of the throne, as you might say," moaned the poor woman. "True enough," murmured her niece.
Upon Mavis interviewing Mrs Scatchard on the matter, the latter declared that her niece had suggested the subject to her directly after Mavis had left in the morning, a statement which Miss Meakin did not appear to overhear. Mrs Scatchard showed Mavis a clean, homely little room.
If, as had been alleged, Mr Scatchard was a pillar of the throne, that august institution was in a parlous condition. He was a red-headed, red-eyed, clean-shaven man, in appearance not unlike an elderly cock; his blotchy face, thick utterance, and the smell of his breath, all told Mavis that he was addicted to drink.
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