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Una had a doll, a miniature mahogany centre-table and bureau, and other things in which I felt no interest. In common, we possessed the box of wooden bricks, and the big portfolio containing tracings by my mother, exquisitely done, of Flaxman's "Outlines of the Iliad and Odyssey" and other classic subjects.
I telegraph to Helen she knows my ways and I come down to protect you against an atheistical mob to-morrow night! Robert tried to dissuade him. He did not want Flaxman. Flaxman's Epicureanism, the easy tolerance with which, now that the effervescence of his youth had subsided, the man harboured and dallied with a dozen contradictory beliefs, were at times peculiarly antipathetic to Elsmere.
In the tiny churchyard the new-made grave had been filled in with frozen earth, and on the sods lay flowers piled there by Rose Flaxman's kind and busy hands. She and Hugh had arrived from the south that morning. Another visitor had come from the south, also to lay flowers on that wintry grave. Stephen Barron's dumb pain was bitter to see.
'I have made a muddle as usual, she said to herself in disgust, 'perhaps even a worse one than I thought! Whatever might be Hugh Flaxman's state of mind, however, he never showed greater self-possession than on this particular evening. A few minutes after Rose's entry he introduced her for the first time to his sister, Lady Helen.
Then, when he came home, he would have out his books and fall to some old critical problem his worn and scored Greek Testament always beside him, the quick eye making its way through some new monograph or other, the parched lips opening every now and then to call Flaxman's attention to some fresh light on an obscure point only to relinquish the effort again and again with an unfailing patience.
"But I shall choose my own time." And as he raised his cold eyes upon his son it pleased his spirit of intrigue, and of domination through intrigue, that he had already received a letter from Flaxman giving precisely opposite advice, and did not intend to tell Stephen anything about it. Stephen's impulsive candour, however, appealed to him much more than Flaxman's reticence.
And indeed Flaxman's footing with the beauty was by no means clear least of all to himself. She evidently liked him, but she bantered him a good deal; she would not be the least subdued or dazzled by his birth and wealth, or by those of his friends; and if she allowed him to provide her with pleasures, she would hardly ever take his advice, or knowingly consult his tastes.
The sermon was ended at last; the Judgment Day was the theme; all the old horror that used haunt me in childhood, when I thought upon this awful period in my soul's future, came back to me as the preacher with a power scarce short of inspiration pictured that day. I could hear Mrs. Flaxman's subdued weeping while in every part of the house, tears and low sobs added to the solemnity of the scene.
Ah! do what we will, it is so scanty and poor, this knowledge of ours, compared with all that we yearn to know but, such as it is, let me, very humbly and very tentatively, endeavour to put it before you. At this point Flaxman's attention was suddenly distracted by a stir round the door of entrance on his left hand.
Impossible to give the reading. A hall full of strained up-turned faces listened to Flaxman's announcement, and to Elsmere's messages of cheer and exhortation, and then a wild wave of grief spread through the place. The street outside was blocked, men looking dismally into each other's eyes, women weeping, children sobbing for sympathy, all feeling themselves at once shelterless and forsaken.
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