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Toplady had a habit, not of looking steadily at an interlocutor, but of casting a succession of quick glances, which seemed to the person thus inspected much more searching than a fixed gaze. Though vastly relieved by the assurance that Mrs.
"It was a scheme of my own, mainly educational. I'll tell you all about it, when we have time. What a lot of people all at once! Ah, it's the 2.40 train that brings them. You came by the one before? There's Mrs. Toplady; so she isn't late, after all." The audience began to seat itself.
"We'll have an afternoon presently. Ask Mrs. Toplady to introduce Mr. Roach he dines with us on the 27th." To make sure of the M. P., Lashmar invited him verbally, and received a dreamy acceptance so dreamy that he resolved to send a note, to remind Mr. Roach of the engagement. "So you are to be one of us, at Mr. Lashmar's dinner," said the hostess to Mrs. Woolstan.
Claxton, Reverend Dr. Mayo a dissenting minister, the Reverend Mr. Toplady, and my friend the Reverend Mr. Temple.
Toplady was personally a pious, worthy man, a diligent pastor, beloved by and successful among his parishioners, and by no means quarrelsome except upon paper. He lived a blameless life, principally in a small country village, and died at the early age of thirty-eight.
Toplady had so vast an advantage of him in manner, in social resources, and, for all her amiability, must needs regard him from a higher ground. "It's very nice of you to say that," she resumed; "I was thinking of Mr. Roach, the Member for Belper. You don't happen to know him? Oh, that doesn't matter. He's delightful; about your own age, I think.
Toplady regard me as a contemptible plagiarist?" "It is probable that she has formed conclusions." Lashmar's eyes fell. He saw that Constance was watching him. In the turmoil of his feelings all he could do was to jerk out an impatient laugh. "It's no use," he exclaimed. "You and I have come to a deadlock. We no longer understand each other.
This hadn't occurred to nobody. But his wife was back at him, rill crispy. "'Timothy Toplady, s'she, 'they use churches for horspitals an' refuges, she says. "'They do, says Timothy, solemn, 'they do, in necessity, an' war, an' siege.
And that night I was not minded to have them about, for it might befall that it would be necessary to understand other things as well. "Miss Linda would 'a' cared to," said Mis' Amanda, thoughtfully, "but I donno, myself, about Mis' Proudfit an' Miss Clementina for sure." So bold an innovation as the Proudfits' omission, however, moved Timothy Toplady to doubt.
"But suppose," suggested May, with some uneasiness, "that he knew about that French book?" "Oh, my dear, we can't suppose that! Besides, we haven't read the book. It may really be quite different in its tendency from Mr. Lashmar's view." "I don't see how it can be, Mrs. Toplady. Judging from those quotations, and the article, it's Mr. Lashmar from beginning to end."
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