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At the age of twelve, he was sent to Winchester, and as his holidays were still passed with his uncle, he then ceased to regard Hurst Staple as his home. Twice a year, as he went up to town, he stayed there for a couple of days; but he was soon looked on as a visitor, and the little Wilkinsons no longer regarded him as half a brother in reality and quite a brother in love.
One might swear that all the John Smiths and George Wilkinsons, and all the other pitiful nobodies between Kingdom Come and Baalbec would inscribe their poor little names upon the walls of Baalbec's magnificent ruins, and would add the town, the county and the State they came from and swearing thus, be infallibly correct.
"'Of course, my dear, if Mary wishes it. Besides, Ward is to be there. I learnt so much. "'You learnt more, sir, said Fatima, 'and please don't leave us to die of curiosity. Who is to be there, after all? "'The Wilkinsons, and Miss Jones and her sister, and Ward, and an old friend of Miss Brooke's, a merchant. "'But his name, please! cried Fatima, for my father was retreating to his study.
"Certainly," assented Harold; and John flushed at his own egotism in expecting Marjorie to prefer his society to that of her own family. A little after two o'clock the Ford sedan again drove up to Wilkinsons', and Marjorie, with her little bag in her hand, appeared. Ruth was already in the front seat with Harold, and John got out and assisted Marjorie into the back seat beside him.
Ellen was on the doorstep, and through the open window came the shrieks of numerous little Wilkinsons wearing out expensive shoe-leather on the brick pavement. They sat in the dusk together, Edith very quiet, Willy Cameron talking with a sort of determined optimism. After a time he realized that she was not even listening. "I wish you'd close the window," she said at last.
"Very well," said George, "I will give up Oxford if I cannot do something for myself." He went up, however, to Trinity, and became a candidate for a scholarship there. This he obtained to the great surprise of all the Wilkinsons and of himself. In those days, a lad of eighteen who could get a scholarship at Trinity was considered to be nearly safe in his career.
She's gone to the party! Now go away, will you? How am I ever to be a silversmith, if I can't get any sleep?" And stretching himself once more on the settee, he closed his eyes. John turned straight to the Wilkinsons'. His gait was not hurried; whatever his face may have expressed was hidden by the darkness.
But it was not destined that the Wilkinsons should be reduced even to such poverty as this. The vicarage of Hurst Staple was in the gift of the noble family of Stapledean. The late vicar had been first tutor and then chaplain to the marquis, and the vicarage had been conferred on him by his patron. In late years none of the Wilkinsons had seen anything of the Stapledean family.
He turned the conversation, and they talked agreeably on other matters of Oxford, of the Wilkinsons, of Harcourt, and by degrees also a little of uncle George. "What sort of a house does my brother keep at Hadley eh, George? Dull enough it used to be." "Well; it is dull. Not that he is dull himself; I can always talk to my uncle when he will talk to me." "Sees no company, I suppose?" "Not much."
One might swear that all the John Smiths and George Wilkinsons, and all the other pitiful nobodies between Kingdom Come and Baalbec would inscribe their poor little names upon the walls of Baalbec's magnificent ruins, and would add the town, the county and the State they came from and swearing thus, be infallibly correct.
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