The Long Vacation

son ha

for word and f

our lances a

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is wife the upshot of the interview when they were driving to their meetin

and not Tom,"

and is sheet anchor to Whittingtonia. He began with Clement, but made the ca

ey con

any means quit of it, poor Tina; but there's a great de

with a squeeze of the hand. "But

self down. No rest from that tremendous parish work, with the bothers about curates, school boards and board schools, and the threatened ritual prosecution, which came to nothing, but worried him almost as much as if it had gone on, besides all the trouble about poor Alda, and the loss of Fulbert took

said Gertrude. "He never was properly looked a

side and vegetate, attempt nothing for the next six months, nor even think about St. Matthew

d he ta

'There!' and she gave him such a smile as I would not have missed seeing on any account. 'Mine

or all the family worries would come up

curate there, and it agrees with him better than any other place. So I am

much before! I do believe that if Clement goes on mending, the dear person will have a good

ooder than

m going to have it out. I do think Clement

her alone. H

is delight at keeping her; whereas she could not help seeing that she was a burthen on Clement's soul, between fear of neglecting

ll. The old man worshipped her

a way, but you k

Pro Ecclesia Dei had not been his war-cry from his youth, and he did not underst

rather have had our two first years of

might have gone in fo

how fractious and nasty and abominable I

you had to

orning white as a ghost, an owl in its blinkers, and though I know you would rather have died than have uttered a word, no sooner were you off than he fell upon me with,

e looked! Did I really

to be awfully jolly. I believe I

rfering, eh?

egin trying not to fly out as I used to do

ou always seemed to think

ich said that a child should never know a cross word or look between

lieve otherwise than that Cherry liked her old man, and if

d as well as idolized, but I don't think the deep places in her heart were stirred.

so very mu

iting for it, even about art or books; nor did his old bones

tender of him to d

lement, I expect an article will come

ut returned to d

he was altogether drooping and cru

ectless depression. She would not take up her painting again, she said it was of no use, there was no one to care. I remember her being asked once to do something for the Kyrle Society, an

er, in a doubtful, wistful