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Updated: May 26, 2025
Who could tell? ... She did not take her meals at the common table, but in a corner of the dining-hall in company of an old gouty gentleman with white stubbles on his chin and red-lidded eyes. When she entered the hall she let a smiling glance glide along the table, but without looking at or saluting any one.
Then his eyes blazed with indignation as he grasped the significance of the scoundrel's words. "I've been givin' the truth, Ben Stubbles," he replied, "an' ye know it as well as we do." "You lie," and Ben stamped hard upon the floor in his rage. "You were beastly drunk, got into trouble, and then lay the blame on me. That's a nice way to do things."
Stubbles' ability and influence ready and willing to abandon for a time his heavy business cares, and devote himself so heartily to the welfare of the community in which he is living. If all will follow his excellent example, I feel quite confident that the Church work in this parish will be greatly blest.
Douglas was startled from his musings by a sudden noise to his left. Then, in an instant, the forms of two men hurled themselves upon him. A blow from a stick grazed his head and made him dizzy for a second. In the twinkling of an eye he realised that this was some of Ben Stubbles' mean, dirty work, and the thought maddened him.
It is a most difficult parish, composed principally of mill-men, woodsmen, and a few farmers. It seems that the last clergyman used no tact at all in dealing with them, and thus antagonised everybody, Mr. Stubbles included." "So you think that I would suit, do you?" and Douglas looked quizzically at Dr. Rannage. "I believe you are just the man for the place." "What makes you think so?"
But the greatest feeling of consternation was in the pew where the Stubbles sat. They were all there except Ben, and the sisters were dressed in their finest. For once they forgot about their clothes, and stared with undisguised wonder upon the white-robed man before them. Simon Stubbles stood like a statue. It had taken him only an instant to comprehend the whole situation.
Lord was no sportsman, and one morning, when all his guests were engaged among the stubbles of September, he mounted his quiet palfrey, and gladly took his way to the Manor-house. It was towards the latter end of the month, and one of the earliest of the autumnal fogs hung thinly over the landscape.
"Well, no one is going to ask you to go to the Black Wood," he promised. "Get round to the back of Hunt's stubbles, and bring them into the roots and then over into the park. We will line the park fence. How is that, Middleton?" The keeper touched his hat and stepped briskly off. "I'll just have a walk with them myself, sir," he said. "Them birds do break at Fuller's corner.
Stubbles," the lawyer began, "and as my time is limited, I wish to discuss the matter with you at once." "Why, certainly," Stubbles returned. "We can be as private here as anywhere, sir. Your er companion can wait for you at the store." "No, I wish him to stay where he is," Garton replied. "Do you wish Squire Hawkins to remain, too?" Stubbles anxiously enquired. "That is for you to decide.
"About two miles down the line we struck off to the east on foot, and crossed rice stubbles with clear rills of water running through them, the first clear water we have seen here so far any we have seen has been red or yellow with mud.
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