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She wrote to her people in Upcote she had been a widow for some years that she had accepted a nurse's situation in the States, and Sir Ralph saw her off from Genoa for New York. She seems to have married again in the States; and in the course of years to have developed some grievance against the Fox-Wiltons which ultimately determined her to come home.
And on this decisive recollection there had followed a rush of others, no less pertinent: things said by his dead mother about the brother whom she had loved and bitterly regretted. So the wronged lady whom he would have married but for his wife's obstinacy was "Aunt Alice!" Philip remembered to have once seen her from a distance in the Upcote woods.
The old shelter, the old peace, are gone. We are wanderers and pilgrims henceforward! "As far as I know, Hester is still in complete ignorance of all that has happened. I have told her that Edith finds Tours so economical that she prefers to stay abroad for a couple of years, and to let the Upcote house.
He had just given a sketch of the church meeting at Upcote, and of the situation in the village up to date. The Bishop sat absently patting his thin knees, and evidently very much concerned. "A most unpleasant a most painful scene. I confess, Mr. Barron, I think it would have been far better if you had avoided it." Barron held himself rigidly erect.
Presently it was added that Mr. Henry Barron, of Upcote Minor, one of the prosecutors in the ecclesiastical suit, had obtained unexpected and startling confirmation of these extraordinary facts from the confession of a woman who had been present at the birth of the child and had identified the Rector of Upcote as the father.
The old red sandstone church of Upcote Minor was closely packed on Sunday; and the loyalty of the parish to their Rector, their answer to the Arches judgment, was shown in the passion, the loving intelligence with which every portion of the beautiful Modernist service was followed by an audience of working men and women gathered both from Upcote itself and from the villages round, who knew very well and gloried in the fact that from their midst had started the flame now running through the country.
For the Greek conception of a remorseless fate, as it is forever shaped and embodied in the tale of Oedipus, had led Hester apparently to a good deal of subsequent browsing in the literature the magazine articles at any rate of French determinism; and she rattled through some of her discoveries in this reckless letter: "You talked to me so nicely, dear Mrs. Elsmere, that last evening at Upcote.
And in a few brief sentences he described the agitated pursuit of the last fortnight; the rapid journeys, prompted now by this clue, now by that; the alternate hopes and despairs; with no real information of any kind, till Hester's telegram, sent originally to Upcote and reforwarded, had reached Meynell in Paris, just as they had returned thither for a fresh consultation with the police at headquarters.
While Meynell was passing through the woods of Forked Pond a very different scene, vitally connected with the Rector and his fortunes, was passing a mile away, in a workman's cottage at Upcote Minor. Barron had spent an agitated day.
My friends are mostly artists and actors they are quite content to be excluded from Upcote society so am I. I don't gather you are altogether in love with it yourself." He looked at her mockingly. "If it were only Sarah or mamma," she said doubtfully. "You mean I suppose that Meynell your precious guardian my very amiable cousin allows himself to make all kinds of impertinent statements about me.
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