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When you return, in three months' time, I shall not have a fly waiting for you at the station here, or if I do, it will be for the mother's exclusive use and benefit; I shall parade you through the town on my arm, showing your renewed strength of leg and limb to the delighted eyes of Helstonleigh." "Why are you so silent?" Mrs. Channing inquired of William Yorke.
"If they do, it will be what they have never given yet!" exclaimed Stephen Bywater. "Kissing goes by favour." "Ah, but I heard that the dean " At this moment a boy dashed into the throng, scattering it right and left. "Where are your eyes?" he whispered. Close upon them was the dean. Arm in arm with him, in his hat and apron, walked the Bishop of Helstonleigh.
The sexton was beginning a sharp reproof to the "mason," and the crowd preparing a chorus to it, when they were seized with consternation, and fell back on each other's toes. It was the Bishop of Helstonleigh, in his laced-up hat and apron, who walked forth. The sexton humbly snatched off his hat; the college boys raised their trenchers.
Hamish had boasted that he should walk his father through Helstonleigh for the benefit of beholders, if happily he came home capable of walking; but, like poor Tom and his plan, that had to be relinquished. In the first half-dozen paces they would meet half a dozen gossipers, and the first remark from each, after congratulations, would be, "What a sad thing this is about your little Charles!"
"Why should people flock to see Jenkins?" exclaimed Tom. "He is nobody." "That is just what Mrs. Jenkins said this morning," returned Arthur. "I believe they go out of curiosity to hear the truth of the locking-up in the cloisters. The bishop's having been one of the sufferers has aroused the interest of Helstonleigh." "I am very glad that Jenkins is better," observed Mr. Charming.
"Sneak Simms," he had been called since the occurrence: and he had come to the resolution, in his own mind, of writing word home to his friends that the studies in Helstonleigh college school were too much for him, and asking to be removed to a private one. I think he would have to do so still. Hamish lifted Charley to him with an eager, fond movement. A weight was taken from his mind.
My lady divined only too well. She gave a prolonged series of shrieks, jumped out of bed, flung on any clothes that came uppermost, and started in pursuit of him, to the intense wonder of Martha, and to the astonishment of Helstonleigh, as she flew wildly through the streets to the station. The sight of Hamish at a carriage-door guided her to her runagate son.
Tom made a whole heap of bullets at once, and showered them on to her. "So Hamish be quiet, Tom! you may inquire all over Helstonleigh to-morrow, whether any one wants a governess; a well-trained young lady of twenty-one, who can play, sing, and paint, speak really good English, and decent French, and has a smattering of German," rattled on Constance, as if to cover her blushes.
Bywater withdrew to a short distance, under cover of the cathedral wall, and bent his body backwards and forwards with the violence of his laughter, unconscious that the Bishop of Helstonleigh was standing near him, surveying him with an exceedingly amused expression. His lordship had been an ear-witness to part of the colloquy, very much to his edification. "What is your mirth, Bywater?"
Before the nine days' wonder, which, you know, is said to be the accompaniment of all marvels, had died away, Helstonleigh was fated to be astonished by another piece of news of a different nature the preferment of the Reverend William Yorke.
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