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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Miss Mumbray," said the clergyman, glaring at her, yet affecting forbearance, "you seem to forget that our cottagers are not so inhospitable as to refuse a glass of water to the weary pedestrian who knocks at their door." "I don't forget it, Mr. Vialls," replied Serena, who was trembling at her own boldness, but found a pleasure in persevering.
This the first day of having vialls and other instruments to play a symphony between every verse of the anthem; but the musique more full than it was the last Sunday, and very fine it is. Twenty-four instrumentalists were engaged, and this was the first day upon which they were brought into requisition.
The girl's face brightened; she said little, but that little with very gracious smiles. Then Mr. Vialls approached, and the tete-a-tete was necessarily at an end. When he was at length alone with his wife, the Mayor saw what was in store for him; in fact, he had foreseen it throughout the evening. "Yes," began the lady, with flashing eyes, "this is your Mr. Glazzard!
Scatchard Vialls came in at the last moment with perspiring brow, excusing himself on the ground of professional duties. He was thin, yet flabby, had a stoop in the shoulders, and walked without noticeably bending his knees. The crown of his head went to a peak; he had eyes like a ferret's; his speech was in a high, nasal note.
Mumbray glared and breathed hard, her spacious bosom working like a troubled sea. "Your behaviour astonishes me! after what you heard Mr. Vialls say." "Mr. Vialls is an ignorant and foolish man," remarked Serena, without looking up. Then did the mother's rage burst forth without restraint, eloquent, horrisonous. As if to save her ears, Serena went to the piano and began to play.
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