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The daily service at Bayford was an offering made in faith by the vicar, for as yet there was very little attendance. 'But, said Mr. Dusautoy, 'it is the worship of God, not an entertainment to please man it is all nonsense to talk of its answering or not answering. Mr.
Dusautoy contrived to release him at once, whereupon he went to try the most unwholesome curacy he could find, with serious intentions of exchanging his living for it; but he fortunately became so severely and helplessly ill there, that he was pretty well cured of his mental fever, and quite content to go to his heath, and do his work there like the humble and earnest man that he was, perhaps all the better for having been personally taught something more than could be gained from books and colleges.
Albinia was sorry for it, as she detected a look of suppressed amusement on Mrs. Dusautoy's face. 'I mean to ask Mr. Kendal what can be done, she said; 'and in the meantime, to descend from what we can't do to what we can. Mr. Dusautoy told me to come to you for orders. 'And I told Mr. Dusautoy that I should give you none. 'Oh! that is hard. 'If you could have heard him!
It looks now as if that fever might have come bodily out of the pond. I'll have no more to say to it till the sun has licked up the fog, and made it bright! Sunday morning my last Sunday without school-teaching I hope! I famish to begin again and I will make time for that, and the girls too! I am glad he consents to my doing whatever I please in that way! I hope Mr. Dusautoy will!
'I have never minded long enough, sighed Albinia. 'What shall I do, Mrs. Dusautoy? What do you think it is? This was the last question Mrs. Dusautoy wished to be asked in Sophy's presence. She had little doubt that it was spine complaint like her own, but she had not intended to let her perceive the impression, till after having seen Mrs. Kendal alone.
With perfect sincerity, she could praise his good looks. 'He has had a quantity of sad stuff thrust on him by the people who have been about his poor mother, said Mr. Dusautoy.
It was well that practice had trained Sophia in the qualities of a nurse, for Lucy was seldom available when Algernon Dusautoy was at home; she was sure to be riding with him, or sitting for her picture, or the good Vicar, afraid of her overworking herself, insisted on her spending the evening at the vicarage.
Kendal used to stride away from the sight of her swollen eyes, and ask Albinia why she did not tell her that the only good thing that could happen to her would be, that she should never see nor hear of the fellow again. Why he did not tell her so himself was a different question. 'Well, Albinia, said Mr. Kendal, after seeing Mr. Dusautoy on his return from London.
Dusautoy, and the considerate let-alone system of his wife, kept her at ease and not far from cheerful, albeit neither the simplicity of the one nor the keenness of the other was calculated to draw her into unreserve: comfort was in the children.
Dusautoy might as well hope that a Wedgwood cream-jug would guide a copper cauldron and keep verdigris aloof. His attraction for Lucy had always been a mystery to her family, who perhaps hardly did justice to the magnetism of mere force of purpose.
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