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The Weavers
Complete

CHAPTER II
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Thee was seen to drink of spirits in a public-house at Heddington that day.
Twice--thrice, like any drunken collier." "Twice," was the prompt correction.
There was a moment's pause, in which some women sighed and others folded and unfolded their hands on their laps; the men frowned.
"Thee has been a dark deceiver," said the shrill Elder again, and with a ring of acrid triumph; "thee has hid these things from our eyes many years, but in one day thee has uncovered all.

Thee--" "Thee is charged," interposed Elder Fairley, "with visiting a play this same day, and with seeing a dance of Spain following upon it." "I did not disdain the music," said the young man drily; "the flute, of all instruments, has a mellow sound." Suddenly his eyes darkened, he became abstracted, and gazed at the window where the twig flicked softly against the pane, and the heat of summer palpitated in the air.

"It has good grace to my ear," he added slowly.
Luke Claridge looked at him intently.

He began to realize that there were forces stirring in his grandson which had no beginning in Claridge blood, and were not nurtured in the garden with the fruited wall.


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