There are two clergymen present to whom
such language is distasteful; as it is also I hope to the others
who are all members of the Church of England. Perhaps you will
allow me to request that the subject may be changed." After that
conversation flagged and the evening was by no means joyous. The
rector certainly regretted that his '57 claret should have been
expended on such a man. "I don't think," said he when John Morton
had taken the Senator away, "that in my whole life before I ever
met such a brute as that American Senator."
CHAPTER XVI
Persecution
There was great consternation in the attorney's house after the
writing of the letter to Lawrence Twentyman. For twenty-four hours
Mrs. Masters did not speak to Mary, not at all intending to let her
sin pass with such moderate punishment as that, but thinking during
that period that as she might perhaps induce Larry to ignore the
letter and look upon it as though it were not written, it would be
best to say nothing till the time should come in which the lover
might again urge his suit. But when she found on the evening of the
second day that Larry did not come near the place she could control
herself no longer, and accused her step-daughter of ruining
herself, her father, and the whole family. "That is very unfair,
mamma," Mary said.
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