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Harold arose and they shook hands. The father's eyes were wet with tears. "I can't afford to forfeit your good opinion," Mr. Excell went on, "especially now when you are leaving me, perhaps forever. I think you are right in going. There is no chance for you here; perhaps out there in the great West you may get a start.
For there is certainly more real merit in a masterly choice of words and sentiments, in which the ancients are allowed to excell, than in those measured periods with which they were totally unacquainted.
She looked at him once and then at the clerk as if to say, "Is this the man?" Then Harold arose and said, "Well, Mary, here I am." For an instant she looked at him, and then a light leaped into her eyes. "Why, Harold Excell! " she stopped abruptly as he caught her outstretched hands, and she remembered the sinister association of the name. "Why, why, I didn't know you. Where do you come from?"
To this my son Ezekiel I give and bequeath the Farm and House of Lantrig, with all my Worldly Goods, and add my earnest hope that this may suffice to support both him and his Descendants in Godliness and Contentment, knowing how greatly these excell the Wealth of this World and the Lusts of the Flesh.
Excell came on to marry them, but Jack sent his best wishes by mail; he could not quite bring himself to see Mary give herself away even to his hero. Mrs. Raimon took her defeat with most touching grace. "You're right," she said. "He's yours I know that perfectly well, but you must let me help him to make a start. It won't hurt him, and it'll please me.
He's gentle as a babe now; he was as terrible and as beautiful as a tiger then." Reynolds sent fifty dollars with an apology for the delay and Mr. Excell offered his slender purse, but Mrs. Raimon said: "I'll attend to this matter of expense. Let me do that little for him please!" And he gave way, knowing her great wealth.
And at Dean in Northamptonshire, I have seen the very Stones colour the rusty Iron by the constant running of a Spring-water; but that which will Lather with Soap, or such soft water that percolates through Chalk, or a Grey Fire-stone, is generally accounted best, for Chalks in this respect excell all other Earths, in that it administers nothing unwholsome to the perfluent waters, but undoubtedly absorps by its drying spungy Quality any ill minerals that may accompany the water that runs thro' them.
So much for a French assembly or fashionable rout, which certainly excells an English one in elegance and fancy, as much as it falls short of it in substantial mirth. The French, it must be confessed, infinitely excell every other nation in all things connected with spectacle, and more or less this spectacle pervades all their parties.
"Your father, "SAMUEL EXCELL." For a moment this letter made Mose feel his father's loneliness, and had he not held in his hand two other and more important letters he would have replied with greater tenderness than ever before in his life. "Well, Mose, set up," said Mrs. Reynolds; "letters'll keep." He was distracted all through the meal in spite of the incessant questioning of his good friends.
When Lucy came in, Peter was reading aloud to him some of Traherne's "Divine Reflections on the Native Objects of an Infant-Eye," which he seemed rather to like. "New burnisht Joys! Which finest Gold and Pearl excell!" "Oo," said Thomas expectantly. "Ow," said Thomas, agreeing. Peter turned over the pages. "Do you like it? Do you think so too? Here's another about you."
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