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On one occasion the parson took upon him to remonstrate with what seemed to him the audacity of his parishioner: "Don't you think you are just going a little too far there, Mr. MacLear?" he said. "Ye mean ower far intil the dark, Mr. Blatherwick?" "Yes, that is what I mean. You speculate too boldly."
Scully and his young friend Perkins returned to town; the latter to his garrets in Bedford Row the former to his apartments on the first floor of the same house. He lived here to superintend his legal business: his London agents, Messrs. Higgs, Biggs, and Blatherwick, occupying the ground floor; the junior partner, Mr. Gustavus Blatherwick, the second flat of the house.
Meanwhile, in the study, leaning against the mantelpiece in moody reflection, Mr Blatherwick was musing sadly on the hardships of the schoolmaster's life. The proprietor of Harrow House was a long, grave man, one of the last to hold out against the anti-whisker crusade. He had expressionless hazel eyes, and a general air of being present in body but absent in spirit.
"But dinna ye think, sir, that that direction it's plain the dark grows a wee thinner, though I grant ye there's nothing yet to ca' licht? Licht we may aye ken by its ain fair shinin, and by noucht else!" "But the human soul is just as apt to deceive itself as the human eye! It is always ready to take a flash inside itself for something objective!" said Blatherwick.
Blatherwick had let her eyes rest upon her but for a moment, she would probably have looked again; and might have discovered that she was both a good-looking and graceful little creature, with blue eyes, and hair as nearly black as that kind of hair, both fine and plentiful, ever is.
Higgs, Biggs, and Blatherwick had evidently been bribed; for would you believe it? they told us to give up possession at once, as a will was found, and we could not defend the action.
A temporary compromise was effected between the two parties by the securing for James of a post as assistant-master at Harrow House, the private school of one Blatherwick, M.A., the understanding being that if he could hold the job he could remain in England and write, if it pleased him, in his spare time.
Indeed, I am even now all but convinced that what you say must be what the Apostle intended!" With a great sigh, of which he was not aware, Blatherwick rose and walked from the kitchen, hoping he looked not guilty, but sunk in thought. In truth he was unable to think.
The parson and his wife had long been on friendliest terms with the farmer of Stonecross and his wife; and, brooding on the condition of their guest, it was natural that the thought of Mrs. Blatherwick should occur to them as one who might be able to render them the help they needed for her.
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