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A mile or two further, and the train stops at Farnham; birthplace of Toplady, who wrote the beautiful hymn, "Rock of Ages;" of William Cobbett, sturdiest of English yeomen; and of Charles Vince, who, coming to Birmingham an utter stranger, so endeared himself to its people, that he was universally beloved; and when he died, was followed to his grave by thousands of the principal inhabitants, amid the tearful regrets of the entire population.
The woman of the world, the humourist and cynic, saw it with admiration. "Ah, that puts my mind at ease!" murmured Mrs. Toplady. "To tell the truth, I have been worrying a little. Sometimes elderly people are so very tenacious of their ideas. Of course Lady Ogram has nothing but your good at heart." "Of course!" exclaimed the girl.
Toplady talked away, in the gayest spirits; and the rain came down heavily, and thunder rolled. Half the distance to St. Pancras was covered before May had uttered anything more than a trivial word or two. Of a sudden she addressed Lashmar, as if about to speak of something serious. "You left all well at Rivenoak?" "Quite well." "When did you come away?" "Early yesterday morning," Dyce replied.
If so, I hope you will let me have a long talk with you, about all sorts of things. One of them, of course, must be Mr. Lashmar's candidature." Saying this, Mrs. Toplady beamed with kindness. Constance noted the words and the look for future reflection.
I feel quite sure I shouldn't." "I quite understand that," replied the listener, the corners of her lips very eloquent. "Such a thing had never entered my mind," pursued May, volubly and with emphasis. "Never!" "It may have entered someone else's mind, though," interposed Mrs. Toplady, again maturely arch. "Oh, do you think so!" exclaimed the girl, with manifest pleasure. "I'm sure I hope not.
"Mis' Toplady an' Mis' Holcomb was high-eyebrows on the other side of it, an' they come at me like tick lookin' for tock. "'Well, s'I, 'it is Jennie's shroud she's wearin'. But I guess we'll hev to bury 'Leven in it to get it underground. I won't tell her. "I give 'em to understand as much as I wanted they should know, not includin' exactly how I met 'Leven.
She did not desire him to be too facile a victim of cajolery; it would take from the interest she felt in his ambitions. At table, they talked at first of bio-sociology, Mrs. Toplady, with the adroitness which distinguished her, seeming thoroughly to grasp a subject of which she knew nothing, and which, if she had tried to think about it, would have bored her unspeakably.
Something in his look made her pause. She looked out of the window, before adding: "Still, I don't think it's quite true. The first time I saw you, I felt you were very serious, and that you had thought much. You rather overawed me." Dymchurch laughed. In her corner, Mrs. Toplady still found matter for ironic smiling as she rustled over the evening journal; and the train swept on towards London.
And assuredly he agreed with Origen respecting eternal punishment, rather than with Calvin and Mr. Toplady. But a man may accord with Newton, and yet be thought not unworthy of the "starry spheres."
Sir William Amys is to be there for a day or two, and Lord Dymchurch " "Lord Dymchurch?" The girl threw off her air of cold concentration, and shone triumphantly. "Does it surprise you, May?" "Oh, I hadn't thought of it I didn't know my aunt had invited him " "The wonder is that Lord Dymchurch should have accepted," said Mrs. Toplady, with a very mature archness.
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