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Coming back to Weircombe with the carrier's cart, he had questioned the carrier as to whether he had seen the old man anywhere along the road, but this inquiry likewise met with failure. "So the only thing to do, Mary," said Angus, finally, "is to believe his own written word, that he will be back with us before Sunday.
I'd as soon 'a thought o' Weircombe Church walkin' down to the shore an' turnin' itself into a fishin' smack, as that you'd a' got engaged to be married! I would, an' that's a Gospel truth! Ye seemed so steady like an' settled lor' a mussy me!" And here, despite her effort to look serious, a broad smile got the better of her.
"The Giant's Castle" had no recognised name among the Weircombe villagers save this one which Mary had bestowed upon it, and which the children repeated after her so often that it seemed highly probable that the title would stick to it for ever.
Tiny buds, rosy and shining with sap, began to gleam like rough jewels on every twig and tree a colony of rooks which had abode in the elms surrounding Weircombe Church, started to make great ado about their housekeeping, and kept up as much jabber as though they were inaugurating an Irish night in the House of Commons, and, over a more or less tranquil sea, the gulls poised lightly on the heaving waters in restful attitudes, as though conscious that the stress of winter was past.
And so as things have turned out I must leave Weircombe at once I must fight this business through by myself " "Angus!" and putting Charlie gently down, she rose from her chair and came towards him, trembling "Do you mean do you really mean that all is over between us? that you will not marry me?" He looked at her straightly. "I cannot!" he said "Not if I am true to myself as a man!"
His brain was very clear and active and whenever he chose to talk, there were plenty of his humble friends ready to listen. One day the morning papers were full of great headlines announcing the assassination of one of the world's throned rulers, and the Weircombe fishermen, discussing the news, sought the opinion of "old David" concerning the matter.
This, and many other conversations he had with Twitt and a certain few of the villagers, showed him that the little community of Weircombe evidently thought of him as being not long for this world. He accepted the position quietly, and passed day after day peacefully enough, without feeling any particular illness, save a great weakness in his limbs.
Nothing would induce her to stay in London, her one aim and object in life now was to return to Weircombe and explain everything to Angus as quickly as possible. And when the train had gone, Sir Francis left the platform in a state of profound abstraction, and was driven home in his brougham feeling more like a sentimentalist than a lawyer.
There, out beyond the furthest edge of land, lay the ocean, shadowed just now by a delicate dark grey mist, which, like a veil, covered its placid bosom, a mist which presently the rising sun would scatter with its glorious rays of gold; here at his feet nestled Weircombe, a cluster of simple cottages, sweetly adorned by nature with her fairest garlanding of springtime flowers, and behind him, just across a length of barren moor, was the common highroad leading to the wider, busier towns.
He considered himself lucky in having met with a total stranger, for the name of the owner of the waggon, which was duly displayed both on the vehicle itself and the sacks of flour it contained, was unknown to him, and the place from which it had come was an inland village several miles away from Weircombe. He was therefore safe so far from any chance of recognition.
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