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Everything was different from the varied grandeur of the mountains; the eye found no point to rest upon, and the level snow emphasized the loneliness. In spite of the thick driving-robe, the cold bit through Charnock's worn-out clothes, but he was conscious of a strange and almost poignant satisfaction.
We mean to put it right as soon as we can." "Not good enough!" remarked another. "We've got to know when." "Then I'm sorry I can't tell you. It depends on the weather." Some of them growled, and Festing felt Charnock's hand close warningly on his arm. "Won't you come into the light, boys?" the latter asked. "I'd like to know to whom I'm talking."
He got it, he said, from a tombstone, in a distant land; and the tombstone is now incorporated with Job Charnock's, the distant land being India; but the verses I have had to collect elsewhere. I found them in Calcutta, in my host's library.
"What, are there two curates?" demanded Cecil, in a tone of reprobation. Julius made a gesture of assent, with a certain humorous air of deprecation, which, however, was lost upon her. "We never let Mr. Venn have one," continued Cecil, "except one winter when he was ill, and then not a young one. Papa says idle young clergymen are not to be encouraged." "I am entirely of Mr. Charnock's opinion.
He was gone, and Cecil was not sure that he had not presumed to laugh at her. Strangers in court do take her for the queen. Shakespeare The first Sunday of Julius Charnock's ministry was spent in an unexpected manner. In the darkness of the autumn morning there was a knock at the door, and a low hurried call in Anne's voice at the bedroom door: "Rosamond! Julius, pray look out!
"I'm not sure I see your drift," said Festing impatiently. "What's your explanation for our being here?" Charnock's eyes twinkled. "If you want the truth, it's because you're something of an obstinate ass. Wilkinson had really nothing to do with it, and the weather hasn't much. Your pride brought you and keeps you.
Charnock did so, and when Festing had filled his plate resumed: "This food is decently cooked, and I like my supper served and not thrown at me. Still, in view of what we're charged for board, it's annoying to think the contractor will be richer for a meal I haven't got." "It's a new thing to find you parsimonious. I hope you'll keep it up." Charnock's gloomy face softened. "I mean to.
Then she shut the door, and after unfastening Charnock's collar and vest stood looking at him for a minute or two. He had not wakened, but she had seen him like this before and was not alarmed. His face was flushed and the veins on his forehead were prominent; his clothes were crumpled and sprinkled with bits of hay.
Anne, blinded with tears, jarred, bruised, bleeding, and bewildered, submitted to be led by kind nurse the more willingly because she knew that her mother, together with all the quality, were at Sir Thomas Charnock's. They had dined at the fashionable hour of two, and were to stay till supper-time, the elders playing at Ombre, the juniors dancing.
Sometimes the window and door were open and the smell of parched grass came in; sometimes the stove was red-hot and the house shook in the icy blast. Festing admitted that it was not altogether for Charnock's society he had visited the homestead. Then he began to puzzle about a likeness to somebody he knew. He had remarked this before, but the likeness was faint and eluded him.
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