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Upon the following day he stood in the best room of the Thornwick Inn which even then was a very decent place to any eyes uncast with envy and he saw the long billows of the ocean rolling before the steady blowing of the salt-tongued wind, and the broad white valleys that between them lay, and the vaporous generation of great waves.
She made up her mind that she would not go near Testbridge till everything was settled, and the keys of the shop in Mr. Brett's hands; and remained, therefore, where she was with Letty, who to keep her company delayed her departure as long as she could without giving offense at Thornwick.
For he understood not the system only, but also the nature of mankind. The people at the Thornwick did not want him. Very good, so much the better for him and for them; because the more they wanted him, the less would he go near them. Tut! tut! tut! he said; what did he want with crack-brained patients?
"Come, now, what's it all about?" he said. Mary began at once to tell him, as directly as she could, that she was under obligation to Mr. Wardour of Thornwick, and that she had reason to fear Miss Yolland was trying to get a hold of him "And you know what that would be for any man!" she said. "No, by Jove! I don't," he answered. "What would it be?" "Utter ruin," replied Mary.
The relative situation of the houses I mean the stone-and-lime houses of Durnmelling and Thornwick, was curious; and that they had at one time formed part of the same property might have suggested itself to any beholder.
He had not broken the heart of Widow Precious by taking up his quarters at the Thornwick Inn, as she at first imagined, but loyally brought himself and his horse to her sign-post for their Sunday dinner.
He would have seen also that, while the breath of the world's opinion is a mockery in counterpoise with a life of broken interest and the society of an unworthy husband, the mere fact of his mother's receiving her again at Thornwick would of itself be enough to reestablish her position in the face of all gainsayers. But in Godfrey Wardour love and pride went hand in hand.
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