[A Laodicean by Thomas Hardy]@TWC D-Link bookA Laodicean BOOK THE SIXTH 7/66
You can also tell him that I am anxious to clear up a misunderstanding, and ask him to call at our hotel.' But as she looked over the dreary suburban erections which lined the road from the railway to the old quarter of the town, it occurred to her that Somerset would at that time of day be engaged in one or other of the mediaeval buildings thereabout, and that it would be a much neater thing to meet him as if by chance in one of these edifices than to call upon him anywhere.
Instead of putting up at any hotel, they left the maids and baggage at the station; and hiring a carriage, Paula told the coachman to drive them to such likely places as she could think of. 'He'll never forgive you,' said her aunt, as they rumbled into the town. 'Won't he ?' said Paula, with soft faith.
'I'll see about that.' 'What are you going to do when you find him? Tell him point-blank that you are in love with him ?' 'Act in such a manner that he may tell me he is in love with me.' They first visited a large church at the upper end of a square that sloped its gravelled surface to the western shine, and was pricked out with little avenues of young pollard limes.
The church within was one to make any Gothic architect take lodgings in its vicinity for a fortnight, though it was just now crowded with a forest of scaffolding for repairs in progress.
Mrs.Goodman sat down outside, and Paula, entering, took a walk in the form of a horse-shoe; that is, up the south aisle, round the apse, and down the north side; but no figure of a melancholy young man sketching met her eye anywhere.
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