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It's a matter between the Thorntons, boy!" There had been an appeal in his voice that was near wistfulness. And while he talked the wisdom that had come from the mouth of a child that evening threaded its own quaint appeal into the argument of the grandfather. Resentment and obstinacy, if they be tempered with youth, cannot fight long against affection and the ties of blood.
His earnest efforts in behalf of the negro were as plainly the result of Evangelicalism as was the munificence of the Thorntons or the preaching of Venn. When Wilberforce was first impressed seriously, and was in doubt what plan of life to adopt, he consulted, like many others, John Newton. He could not have had recourse to a better adviser.
'I never thought yo'd be dining with Thorntons, repeated I Bessy. 'Why, the mayor hissel' dines there; and the members of Parliament and all. 'I think I could support the honour of meeting the mayor of Milton. 'But them ladies dress so grand! said Bessy, with an anxious look at Margaret's print gown, which her Milton eyes appraised at sevenpence a yard.
Johnson, of Horace Walpole, of Bishop Horne and Bishop Shute Harrington on the one hand, of John Newton, Wilberforce, the two Thorntons and Bishop Porteus on the other, she had points of contact with people of very different ways of thinking. It was this wide sympathy which enabled her to gain the ear of the public.
It was no great matter, her father said to himself, after all; very likely it would amuse her; the Widow was a lively woman enough, perhaps a little comme il ne faut pas socially, compared with the Thorntons and some other families; but what did he care for these petty village distinctions? Elsie spoke. "I mean to go. You must go with me, Dudley. You may do as you like, Dick."
Peggy thought they probably did not live so far from the village; they could not have had such a joyous walk as they had had, or met so many friends. "Oh, that beautiful collie dog! How lucky the Thorntons were to have him! And the black pussy was a darling, not half so beautiful, of course, as Lady Jane, but still, a darling." She sighed when she thought of Lady Jane.
He was a comfortable family physician to have about, with a good digestion and a desirable connection; in his few hours of recreation he could be counted on for tennis or yachting or a dinner-party, even with a dance attached. One step that marked the prosperity of the Thorntons was their new house on Beacon Street, selected with much care in the short block or two of stable neighborhood.
He was a good preacher; his sympathies of friendship, perhaps, rather than of definite opinion were with men like Mr. John Bowdler and the Thorntons. While he lived he taught Charles Marriott himself.
"I'm a-comin' ter thet ... atter thet pitch-battle folks began turnin' ter them they'd been laughin' ter scorn ... they come an' begged me ter head ther Thorntons an' ther Harpers. They went similar ter Jim Rowlett an' besaught him ter do ther like fer ther Rowletts an' ther Doanes.
"Ther Thorntons an' Harpers them thet dwells furthest back in ther sticks air a doin' a heap of buzzin' an' talkin'. They're right sim'lar ter bees gittin' ready ter swarm. I've done seed ter that. I reckon when this hyar stranger starts in ter rob ther honey outen thet hive he's goin' ter find a tol'able nasty lot of stingers on his hands."
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