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But a process was going forward in two other minds, which ultimately saved Milly from having to perform this painful task. In the first place, the Countess was getting weary of Shepperton weary of waiting for her brother's overtures which never came; so, one fine morning, she reflected that forgiveness was a Christian duty, that a sister should be placable, that Mr.
But no Oliver returned. IV. Oliver Falls among Friends Mr. Bill Sikes having an important house-breaking engagement with his fellow-robber, Mr. Toby Crackit, at Shepperton, decided that Oliver must accompany him. It was a detached house, and the night was dark as pitch when Sikes and Crackit, dragging Oliver along, climbed the wall and approached a narrow, shuttered window.
'And a most wholesome discipline that would be, said the Countess, 'indeed, you are too patient and forbearing, Mr. Barton. For my part, I lose my temper when I see how far you are from being appreciated in that miserable Shepperton. If, as is probable, Mr.
'Some people would say our friend Barton was not the best judge of refinement. Perhaps the lady flatters him a little, and we men are susceptible. She goes to Shepperton Church every Sunday drawn there, let us suppose, by Mr. Barton's eloquence. 'Pshaw, said Mr.
Just when Shepperton had become the place where he most wished to stay where he had friends who knew his sorrows where he lived close to Milly's grave. To part from that grave seemed like parting with Milly a second time; for Amos was one who clung to all the material links between his mind and the past. His imagination was not vivid, and required the stimulus of actual perception.
Pilgrim, with his mouth only half empty of muffin, 'you had a row in Shepperton Church last Sunday. I was at Jim Hood's, the bassoon-man's, this morning, attending his wife, and he swears he'll be revenged on the parson a confounded, methodistical, meddlesome chap, who must be putting his finger in every pie. What was it all about? 'O, a passill o' nonsense, said Mr.
Tryan will, poor dear man! 'It will be a heavy day for us all when that comes to pass, said Mrs. Pettifer. 'We shall never get anybody to fill up that gap. There's the new clergyman that's just come to Shepperton Mr. Parry; I saw him the other day at Mrs. Bond's. He may be a very good man, and a fine preacher; they say he is; but I thought to myself, What a difference between him and Mr. Tryan!
Then followed the migration of the clerk to the gallery, where, in company with a bassoon, two key-bugles, a carpenter understood to have an amazing power of singing 'counter', and two lesser musical stars, he formed the complement of a choir regarded in Shepperton as one of distinguished attraction, occasionally known to draw hearers from the next parish.
Hackit often observed that the colliers, who many of them earned better wages than Mr. A certain amount of religious excitement created by the popular preaching of Mr. Parry, Amos's predecessor, had nearly died out, and the religious life of Shepperton was falling back towards low-water mark. Here, you perceive, was a terrible stronghold of Satan; and you may well pity the Rev.
I often say to my brother, it is a great comfort to me that Shepperton Church is not too far off for us to go to; don't I, Edmund? 'Yes, answered Mr. Bridmain; 'they show us into such a bad pew at Milby just where there is a draught from that door. I caught a stiff neck the first time I went there. 'O, it is the cold in the pulpit that affects me, not the cold in the pew.
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