This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...little place, --he who had wondered whether he was doomed to pass all his life in Shadbrook, now trembled with terror at the bare idea of leaving it. "Let me persuade you,"--he heard the Squire say--"to accept another living. I shall miss you from my own part of the country, of course, --but I'm sure ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...little place, --he who had wondered whether he was doomed to pass all his life in Shadbrook, now trembled with terror at the bare idea of leaving it. "Let me persuade you,"--he heard the Squire say--"to accept another living. I shall miss you from my own part of the country, of course, --but I'm sure it would be kinder to you to remove you from the scene of the awful tragedy that has befallen you. I have no other living vacant in my own gift, but I can help you to secure an excellent one where you will be among more congenial people and surroundings, and then--perhaps--in time, --the wound will heal" So far Everton listened, silently, --then he answered in low and trembling accents. "It is a wound too deep for healing!"--he said--" And I cannot leave Shadbrook, --not new!" "Why not?" persisted the Squire--"My dear Everton, think of it! You will be insufferably lonely here, --the whole character and type of the place is opposed to your character and type, --besides your capabilities fit you for a wider field of action" "A man makes his own field of action,"--answered Everton, gaining strength as the burden of his thoughts found relief in speech--" It is my own fault that I have not made mine yet--but I will, --and in Shadbrook! It is large and wide enough to contain a great sorrow--perhaps it will also hold a great love! My dear Mr. Hazlitt, you are goodness itself, and I thank you from my heart!--but, do not urge me to accept your offer! My work is cut out for me here." The Squire looked distressed. "The work is not important,"--he began, --" And much of it must be distasteful" "All the more reason why I should do it,"--said...
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