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This very day he had brought into action the mischievous and unfair blasphemy laws, and to everybody's amazement, had commenced a prosecution against Raeburn for a so-called "blasphemous libel" in one of his recent pamphlets. An attack on the liberty of the press was to Raeburn what the sound of the trumpet is to the war horse.
The man whose temper and rule had made the prosperity of a whole country side for nearly forty years, looked at his grandson with twinkling eyes. Miss Raeburn was speechless. Lady Winterbourne was absently staring at Marcella, a spot of red on each pale cheek. Then Marcella suddenly wavered, looked across at Aldous, and broke down.
Raeburn had never sufficiently cared for an adversary as to be moved beyond an anger which could be restricted and held within due bounds; he of course cared more for the success of his cause and his own dignity. But now his love drove him to despair; his intolerable grief at the thought of having an opponent in his own child burst all restraining bonds.
"Just because that stupid old meddler, Helen Raeburn, took it into her wooden head that I could not take care of myself, and talked my father into sending me with you now, instead of letting me go the other way round by myself! Could not take care of myself, forsooth!" "Have you done it?" "I hadn't it to do. Mr Duncan Keith was to take care of me, just as if I had been a baby stuff!
A new foe had arisen in the person of a certain retired cheesemonger, who had sworn war to the knife against the apostle of atheism. Unfortunately, Mr. Pogson's war was not undertaken in a Christ-like spirit; his zeal was fast changing into personal animosity, and he had avowed the he would crush Raeburn, though it should cost him the whole of his fortune.
It really doesn't matter what I suppose that you think about my present state of mind. It is very simple. I ought never to have accepted Mr. Raeburn. I behaved badly. I know it and everybody knows it. Still one has to go on living one's life somehow. The point is that I am rather the wrong person for you to come to just now, for if there is one thing I ardently wish about Mr.
Early in the afternoon they drove to Greyshot, stopping first of all at the toy shop. Raeburn, who was in excellent spirits, fully entered into the difficulties of Dolly's choice. At length a huge toy cat was produced. "Oh, I should like that one!" said Dolly, clapping her hands. "What a 'normous, gleat big cat it is!"
Nothing could have pleased him more than to give his whole time to the work while his great love and admiration for Raeburn eminently qualified him for the service of a somewhat autocratic master. Raeburn, with all his readiness to help those in any difficulty, with all his geniality and thoroughness of character, was by no means the easiest person to work with.
Upon Aldous Raeburn, Edward Hallin produced from the first a deep impression. The interests to which Hallin's mind soon became exclusively devoted such as the systematic study of English poverty, or of the relation of religion to social life, reforms of the land and of the Church overflowed upon Raeburn with a kindling and disturbing force.
If it's like our harvest festival, the things keep dropping in all day." Marcella's eyes were still on the ground. "I thought you were on your way to shoot, Mr. Raeburn?" "So I was, but there is no hurry; if I can be useful. Both the birds and the keeper can wait." "Where are you going?" "To some outlying fields of ours on the Windmill Hill. There is a tenant there who wants to see me.
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