I
deserve every humiliation that can be put upon me. But I have
since found the grace of God. I found it at three o'clock in the
afternoon on the eighth of January, eighteen hundred and--"
"Never mind the year," I interrupted.
My gorge rose. The man was a sanctimonious Chadband. He had
come with nefarious designs on Judith's slender capital. I saw
knavery in the whites of his upturned eyes.
"I should be glad," I continued quickly, "if you would come to
the point of the conversation you desire to have with me. I
presume it concerns Mrs. Mainwaring. She has reconciled herself
to circumstances and has found means to regulate her life with a
certain measure of contentment and comfort until now, when you
suddenly introduce a disturbing factor. You appear to wish to
tell me your reasons for doing so--and I can't see what the grace
of God has to do with it."
He sprang to his feet and shot out both hands in the awkward
gesture of an inspired English prophet.
"But it has everything to do with it! It is the beginning and
end, core and kernel, root and branch of the matter.
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