Clumber chase; or, Love's riddle solved by a royal sphinxA tale of the restoration . e lodge bell startledthem. It was a deep, clear, loud, but musicallytoned bell, that could be heard not only at thehouse, but all over the grounds. With one moreembrace, and a mutual and final God blessyou! Gilbert novv hurried down to his boat,while Dorothy pulled her hood more over her faceto hide her weeping eyes, and walked leisurelyout into the moonlight, resolved to continue in D 2 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISLIBRARY 52 Clumber Chase. 1670. the garden, as if there was no secret in her walk-ing there, for thoug
Clumber chase; or, Love's riddle solved by a royal sphinxA tale of the restoration . e lodge bell startledthem. It was a deep, clear, loud, but musicallytoned bell, that could be heard not only at thehouse, but all over the grounds. With one moreembrace, and a mutual and final God blessyou! Gilbert novv hurried down to his boat,while Dorothy pulled her hood more over her faceto hide her weeping eyes, and walked leisurelyout into the moonlight, resolved to continue in D 2 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISLIBRARY 52 Clumber Chase. 1670. the garden, as if there was no secret in her walk-ing there, for though she might easily have re-gained her own room, she thought it better notto do so, least Phoebe might have been there,and missing her hood would have known thatshe had been out. So she walked listlessly on,in the direction of the Lodge, and soon perceiveda man advancing towards her. It was the Fairbrace, the Incumbent of Richmond,and brother to Jambres Fairbrace, the lawyer,whom Gilbert Broderick had rescued from drown-ing. 1670. Clumber Chase, 53 CHAPIER III. I HE Reverend Arden Fairbrace, ,might with all truth emphaticallyhave been called a man of God, forGod was in all his thoughts and allhis ways ; so that he not only preached to hisparishioners, but practised Christianity amongstthem, which, it must be confessed, did them in-finitely more good, and Gods work a great dealbetter, than if his labours had been confined tohis pulpit and the careful collection of his he had had, in the Scriptural sense, his^ quiver full, but deaths quiver had been faller,and his unerring darts had, one after another,pierced Arden Fairbraces heart through hischildren, till he had not one left. All that washuman in his composition was naturally pros-trated by such repeated blows, and for a time hesank under them, as any man would; but therewas so much that was divine in him, that theelectric and elastic spark of immortality ulti-mately regained the ascendant, n
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