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He knew nothing of women, and was not liked by them, but it was not his fault if he made no impression on the youth about him. It seemed to him that he was always seeking in their eyes and faces for some light of sympathy which was always escaping him, and which he was powerless to compel. He met it for the first time in Robert Elsmere.
'How abominably they sang this morning! she said to herself, with curving lip. 'Talk of the natural north-country gift for music! What ridiculous fictions people set up! Dear me, what clouds! Perhaps we shan't got our walk to Shanmnoor after all, and if we don't, and if-if her cheek flashed with a sudden excitement-'if Mr. Elsmere doesn't propose, Mrs. Thornburgh will be unmanageable.
There is the one cloud on a scene that fills me with increasing wonder and reverence. One cold Sunday afternoon, in January, Flaxman, descending the steps of the New Brotherhood, was overtaken by a Dr. Edmondson, an able young physician, just set up for himself as a consultant, who had only lately attached himself to Elsmere, and was now helping him with eagerness to organize a dispensary.
'Oh, Mrs. Elsmere! said Madame de Netteville, starting, and then coolly recovering herself, 'I had no idea you were there all alone. I am afraid our conversation has been disagreeable to you. I am afraid you are a friend of missions!
'Then the whole wound up with another short prayer, also repeated standing, a commendation of the individual, the Brotherhood, the nation, the world, to God. The phrases of it are terse and grand. One can see at once that it has laid hold of the popular sense, the popular memory. The Lord's Prayer followed. Then, after a silent pause of "recollection," Elsmere dismissed them.
Wendover, on the rare occasions when he held forth, was accustomed to be listened to; and Elsmere was of too sensitive a social fibre to break up the party by an abrupt exit, which could only have been interpreted in one way. So he stayed, and perforce listened, but in complete silence. None of Mr. Wendover's side-hits touched him.
"Elsmere and me went journeying," she said, "and we stayed all night in Hotspur's house, so bears wouldn't get us." Then Catherine remembered the other slumberer, and dragged Elsmere out with more force than gentleness. "I see now what the lights and the calling were," she said. "They discovered that the children were not at home, and were out looking for them. Poor Polly and poor Algernon!
No one with a conscience could have held out a finger to keep Henslowe in his post. But though Elsmere took the letters and promised to give them his best attention, as soon as he got home he made himself irrationally miserable over the matter.
If you can't speak your mind, it is something at any rate to possess one nine-tenths of the clergy being without the appendage. But Elsmere pshaw! he will go muddling on to the end of the chapter! The Squire, indeed, was like a hunter whose prey escapes him at the very moment of capture, and there grew on him a mocking, aggressive mood which Elsmere often found hard to bear.
Well, now, my dears The vicar's wife paused. Her square, short figure was between the two girls; she had an arm of each, and she looked significantly, from one to another, her gray curls, flapping across her face as she did so. 'Go on, Mrs. Thornburgh, cried Rose. 'You make us quite nervous. 'How do ypu like Mr. Elsmere? she inquired, solemnly. 'Very much, said both, in chorus. Mrs.
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