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Updated: June 25, 2025
At such times a telegram sped over the wires, to Aurora Googe, and her heart was rejoiced by a two days' visit from her son.
"I saw a vision of human love that was forgiving, and loving, and saving by nothing but love, like the divine love of the Christ you preach about Father Honoré, I saw Aileen Armagh sitting on a block of granite and Champney Googe kneeling before her, his head in the very dust at her feet and she raising it with her two arms and her face was like an angel's "
Googe, that Mr. Googe saw us both at the same place, at the same time. Mr. Van Ostend spoke to me of your son just a few days before I left New York." "Did he?" Champney's eager blue eyes sought the priest's. "Do you know him well?" "As we all know him through his place in the world of affairs. Personally I have met him only a few times.
This crisis had not been averted; for Aurora Googe, the sister-in-law of Mrs. Champney and mother of young Champney, sold a part of her land in The Gore for the first granite quarry, and in so doing changed for all time the character and fortunes of the town of Flamsted. For many years Octavius Buzzby had championed openly and in secret the cause of Aurora Googe and her only son.
"New York Special Despatch: L. Champney Googe, the treasurer of the Flamsted Quarries Co. " etc., etc. The men looked at one another.
He whistled to Rag and turned into the side road that led to the first quarry. There was no work going on there. This small ownership of forty acres was merged in the syndicate which had so recently acquired the two hundred acres from the Googe estate. He made his way over the hill and around to the head of The Gore.
"His father " she caught up her words, pressed her thin lips more closely together, and leaned back again in her chair. Octavius looked at her in amazement. "Yes," he repeated, "his father, Warren Googe; who else should I mean?" Mrs.
He spoke with old world courtesy. Aurora Googe smiled permission. She saw with satisfaction her son's puzzled look of inquiry as he noted the connoisseurship with which Father Honoré handled his after-supper tools. Mrs.
"You can tell that best yourself there's no use your playing off I don't pretend to know anything about it, but I can put my finger on the very year and the very month you turned against Champney Googe who never had anything but a pleasant word for you ever since you was so high " he indicated a few feet on his whipstock "and first come to Champo.
Champney Googe knew perfectly well that this cross current of influence was diametrically opposed to his own course of life as he had marked it out for himself; knew that this was a species of self-gratification in which he had no business to indulge; he knew, moreover, that from the moment he should make an earnest effort to win Alice Van Ostend and her accompanying millions, this self-gratification must cease.
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