ONE:His new occupation, however, gave him undreamed-of opportunities. One of the advantages of shepherding was that it alternated periods of strenuous work with others of comparative idleness. During these Richard would pore over his "hic, h?c, hoc," and parse and analyse on[Pg 131] bits of waste paper. He learned very quickly, and was soon casting about for means to buy a Greek grammar. He felt that his father could not possibly keep him at the farm if he knew both Latin and Greek.For a moment she yielded to the kiss, then suddenly tore herself away. TWO:But here his firmness again forsook him;��he had stepped from his home��from the quiet seclusion that was endeared to him by years of residence and holy recollections, into a strange world, to struggle and contend��to sin, and be sinned against; and he leaned against the abbey wall with such a feeling of desolation as a child may be supposed to feel, as he bends over the grave of his last surviving parent. A few bitter drops of wounded pride, and deep regret, forced their way down his cheeks, and it was not until he became conscious that a group of persons of different ages and sexes were silently and sympathizingly gazing upon him, that it occurred to him he ought to remove to a less conspicuous situation.

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ONE:"But all ladies are proud, mother! I warrant she is not prouder than another." TWO:However, at his first meeting, held at Guldeford Barn, he was surprised to find a strong agricultural element in the audience. He was questioned on his attitude towards the wheat tax and towards the enfranchisement of six-pound householders. The fact was that for a fortnight previously Reuben had been working up public opinion in the Cocks, and also in the London Trader, the Rye tavern he used on market-days. He had managed to convince the two bars that their salvation lay in taxing wheat, malt, and hops, and in suppressing with a heavy hand those upstarts whom Radical sentimentalists wanted at all costs to educate and enfranchise.

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ONE:"Me!��fur a hemmed Radical! You'd better have saved your money, young feller��I'm shut of you."The remnants of his family were in a front pew��Pete with an elaborately curled forelock, Jemmy casting the scent of cheap hair oil into the prevalent miasma of camphor and moth-killer, and between the two boys, Caro in an unbecoming hat which she wore at a wrong angle, while her dark restless eyes devoured Rose's creamy smartness, from her satin shoes to the wave of curling-irons in her hair. Harry had been left at home��he was in an impossible mood, tormented by some dark current of memory, wandering from room to room[Pg 258] as he muttered��"Another wedding��another wedding��we're always having weddings in this house." TWO:

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ONE: TWO:Sometimes they looked in the hedges for birds' nests, or watched the rabbits skipping in the dusk. They would gape up at the stars together and call the constellations by names of their own��Orion was "the gurt tree," and Cassiopeia was "the sheep trough," and Pegasus was "the square meadow."

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