This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ... could succeed in dispelling that dark shadow which inward grief had cast upon his face. Mr. Porterton had been very anxious to know what Miss Le Beau thought of his case, and when Mr. Dobell had replied, "She thinks as I think," the curate asked, --" Because you think so?" "No. She seems to have arrived at her own ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ... could succeed in dispelling that dark shadow which inward grief had cast upon his face. Mr. Porterton had been very anxious to know what Miss Le Beau thought of his case, and when Mr. Dobell had replied, "She thinks as I think," the curate asked, --" Because you think so?" "No. She seems to have arrived at her own conelusion from her own premises." Mr. Porterton evidently derived much consolation from this remark, and even seemed to regain something of his old cheerfulness from the brightness which was in it. Not only on Mr. Porterton did the dark shadow rest. Mr. Dobell felt that it created gloom in his own spirit, and not there alone. It hung darkly over a large section of his congregation; and Mr. Johnson, with others, --including Miss Pye and Miss Mary Jane Elizabeth Ann--seemed to find a justification for conduct by no means creditable to them, in the existence of that darkness. For no one could deny that Mr. Dobell's courtesy and prudence had changed these people from mere grumblers into confirmed and implacable enemies. I should not like to think so badly of these people as to say that they positively rejoiced in the discomfort which clung to Mr. Dobell, and in the suspicion that hung, like an angry cloud, over his friend. But I am afraid that three-fourths of the congregation of Emmanuel Church gave them credit for this; as Mr. Johnson and his followers scrupled not to declare that the name of St. Barnabas was odious to them; and that for their pastor to lend the shelter of his protection to the accused Mr. Porterton was a scandal. They even went so far as to assert (not publicly, for they never again attempted any public exhibition of themselves, but privately, whenever they could get an open ear)--that unless Mr. Dobel...
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