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during winter-time a long-drawn period of bleak9 and hard monotony.
But when the vast fields, bounded by rough stone walls, grew green and luscious10, and the oaks put forth11 new foliage12 the colour of a young pea-pod, and the elm trunks sprouted13 feathery sprays that likened the trees to gigantic Houdan fowls14, life in Under-edge became at least endurable. Even the dilapidated vicarage looked charming, wistaria draping the old walls in mauve cascades15, and white montana creeper heaped above the porch; roses and passion flower climbed and clung to broken trellis-work, and outside the dining-room window the magnolia tree, planted by a former vicar many years ago, filled the air with lemon scent16 from waxen cups. Though the garden was unkempt, the grass so seldom mown, and the path unweeded, hardy17 perennials18 brightened the neglected flower-beds, and lilac, syringa, laburnum, flourished in sweet luxuriance. It was a paradise for birds, whose trilling echoed clear from dawn to sunset in this safe retreat.
Rafella Forte19, the vicar's daughter, came out of the house this summer morning in a blue cotton frock that matched her eyes, wearing no hat on her yellow head. A coarse market basket was slung20 on her arm, and she carried a light pronged fork, since her object was not to cut flowers for
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the drawing-room vases, as would seem natural for a young lady, but to dig potatoes for the midday meal. The potato patch was perhaps the most useful portion of the vicarage garden, and it meant real disaster if the crop was scanty21, since the living of Under-edge, though not quite so miserable22 as some, was yet poor enough to render the garden produce of infinite value, in support of one joint23 a week, an occasional hen that had ceased laying, and sometimes a rabbit presented by a farmer.
Ella Forte was barely twenty-one, yet for years had she worked, and scraped, and saved, so that the little household--herself, her father, and a single-handed servant--might subsist24 in tolerable comfort; that there might be something still in hand for parish claims, for possible emergencies, for, at least, a passably respectable appearance. She gloried in her management, she knew no discontent, she was proud to fill the post surrendered by her mother, who lay beneath a shrinking mound25 in the churchyard just beyond the vicarage domain26. She was complacently27 convinced of her father's dependence28 upon her, and of her influence in the village, where she had no rival, for the squire's house stood empty, closed, falling into disrepair, its owner dwelling29 out of England, crippled by a dwindling30 rent-roll and heavy charges on the property.
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This morning she sang blithely31 as she crossed the lawn that more nearly resembled a hay-field--sang one of the hymns32 she had selected for to-morrow's service, to be led by herself to her own strenuous34 accompaniment on the aged35 harmonium and the raucous36 voices of the village congregation. The sun shone on her hair, that glinted golden, crinkling over her little head, gathered into a then unfashionable knob at the nape of her slim, white neck. And Captain Coventry, riding along the road, looked over the privet hedge and thought he had never beheld37 anything on this earth to compare with its glory. Why, the girl's hair was like "kincob," like the border of a nautch woman's veil, like the work on a rajah's robe!
Captain Coventry had just returned from India, and the glamour38 of the East was still upon him--the East that is so very different to look back upon when a man's whole service need not be spent in exile. Just now he was on short leave, and his regiment39--an English line regiment--would be returning home in two years' time. India, to him, was yet a pleasant quarter of the globe that meant sport (his passion) well within his means, cheaper comfort, cheaper living, amusements that were welcome to his outdoor tastes, not to speak of soldiering experiences of the finest next to active service. He was on a visit to his widowed mother
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and his spinster sister, who lived in the little country town lying at the base of the hills that jutted40 out like monstrous41 knuckles42 over the Severn Valley; and feeling slightly bored, in need of exercise, of movement, he had hired a horse and was exploring Cotswold villages on morning rides.
So it came about that on this perfect summer day he had passed through Under-edge, and was arrested now by the vision of a girl with golden head and bright blue gown in the garden of a wayside vicarage.
Involuntarily he checked his mount, and from behind the hedge he watched the slim blue figure move across the grass and stand for a moment outlined against a door in an ivy43-covered garden wall. She was singing as she wrestled44 with a rusty45 latch46:
"Other refuge have I none;
Hangs my helpless soul on Thee;
Leave, ah! leave me not alone,
Still support and comfort me."
How he wished he could see her face; he felt he must see it! And when she had opened the door and vanished from his view, he rode on slowly, reluctantly, scheming how he might return with some specious47 reason that would enable him to speak with her.
George Coventry was not susceptible48. Save for
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a youthful and hopeless love affair that left no lasting49 impress on his heart, his life had been exceptionally free from sexual distractions50; he was more on his guard against women than actually indifferent to them. Without conceit51, he was not wholly unaware52 that he found favour, generally, with females of his class, the very austereness of his nature provoked and attracted them; but illicit53 love repelled54 him, and, so far, since he had been in a position to support a wife, no girl or woman in particular had caught his fancy, though in the abstract he was not averse55 to the notion of marriage.
His ideal of womanhood was modelled on the type represented by his mother and his aunts and his spinster sister, ladies whose sole charm lay in their personal virtue56, the keynote of whose lives was duty and devotion to the home. Coventry was an only son, and on the death of his father his mother's whole existence became centred on himself, while Miss Coventry sacrificed youth and pleasure and all outside interests in order that she might minister undividedly to her bereaved57 parent; and both women remained serenely58 unconscious of the waste of life and energy and happiness that the sacrifice entailed59. The daughter refused a proposal from a worthy60 gentleman because, she said, she could not leave Mama; and her mother
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and her brother accepted this decision as only right and proper. The suitor failing to suggest that Mama should also become an inmate61 of his house, the matter went no further. Such immolation62 of female youth to age is common and unending, and in the majority of cases the victim lays down her natural rights on the altar of duty with but little conception of the magnitude of the offering, and receives small credit for her martyrdom.
There had been something chaste63 and exquisite64 about this maiden65 in the garden that had touched a tender chord in George Coventry's breast. He felt an inward certainty that the girl was gentle, simple, sweet--a little saint, with her aureole of hair, and her artless singing of the old familiar hymn33. The impression lured66 him so irresistibly67 that he was several times on the point of turning his horse's head, but each excuse that presented itself struck him as too thin. He had lost his way--where to? He had been suddenly taken ill, felt faint; the very idea caused him to smile--he had never felt faint in his life and did not know how to enact68 the symptoms, and no one would for a moment believe him to be ill, judging by his appearance of hopelessly robust69 health! Perhaps a cigarette would stimulate70 his imagination; he put his hand in his pocket and encountered a
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knife given him only yesterday by his sister for his birthday--the kind of gift "for a man" above which certain feminine minds seem unable to rise when cigarette-cases, sleeve-links, tie-pins and pocket-books have been exhausted71. The knife was a cumbersome72 plated article, comprising, in addition to blades of all sizes, a corkscrew, folding scissors, a button-hook, and an instrument intended for the extraction of stones from horses' hoofs74. For once he blessed Nellie's limited notions of masculine needs, because her present suggested a plausible75 plea.
He dismounted and searched about the ground for a pebble76 that might suit his purpose. Anyone passing would have supposed that the big, bronzed young man scraping in the dust of the country road must have dropped some treasured possession.
Presently he passed his hand with practised touch down the horse's fetlock, and the animal raised its hoof73 in docile77 response. Coventry wedged a little stone between the hoof and the shoe, then turned in the direction of the vicarage, the bridle78 over his arm, the horse limping, ever so slightly, behind him.
At the wooden entrance gate he paused. The vicarage front door stood open, and across the rough gravel79 sweep he could see into the hall--see
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a stone-paved floor and an oak chest, with hats and coats hanging from hooks above it. A rose-scented peace enveloped80 the house and garden; he heard no sound save the high, clear calling of birds.
A sudden reluctance81 assailed82 him, kept him standing83 at the gate, his hand on the latch, his heart beating fast; a fateful feeling that if he disturbed this somnolent84 calm his whole life, his whole future, would be affected85, whether for evil or for good. The horse nuzzled his shoulder gently, a yellow butterfly skimmed past. He thought of the girl's golden hair in the sunshine, and he swung open the gate.
Ivy hid the door-bell, but he found it and pulled boldly. The result was disconcerting; never had he known a house-bell create such a clamour; it clanged and re-echoed, and continued till he felt it must surely rouse not only the vicarage but the entire village. Long before its pealing86 ceased a door was opened within, and an elderly cleric, with a grey beard and a benevolent87 expression, appeared in the porch.
Coventry raised his hat, apologised for his intrusion, and explained.
"My horse," he said, "has got a stone in his hoof, and I'm a long way from home. Have you anything you could lend me to get it out?"
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That was the beginning. The vicar was cordially sympathetic, and at once went in search of some instrument, returning with a pruning88 knife, a skewer89, and a chisel90.
"Perhaps one of these?" he said, and then stood by, remarking upon the weather and the prospects91 of the fruit crop and the hay, and the unusual heat, while with much apparent effort the stone was extracted and cast aside.
Then Coventry stood up and mopped his forehead.
"Yes, the heat is extraordinary, I suppose, for England, though of course it's nothing compared with India."
"Ah! So you have had some experience of the tropics?"
"I'm home on leave from my regiment in India."
The vicar was interested. "Then, no doubt," he said, "you can tell me what headway conversion92 to Christianity is making among the heathen? I once contemplated93 joining an Indian mission myself, but there were difficulties in the way--my dear wife's health, the birth of my little daughter, and so forth. But it is a subject that has always attracted me strongly."
Coventry strove to recollect94 if he had ever conversed95 with a missionary96 in India. "I believe," he
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uttered profoundly, "that it is a very intricate question."
"Quite so; and at such a distance it is difficult for stay-at-homes to understand the obstacles that our brave workers have to encounter and overcome. Idolatry, from all accounts, is a very formidable foe97. My daughter is just now organising a little sale of work, to be held here next week, in aid of foreign missions; we like to feel that, humble98 parish as we are, we do our small share to help. But I must not keep you standing in the sun. Will you not take your horse round to the stables and let us offer you a rest and some refreshment99 before you go on your way?"
Coventry displayed becoming hesitation100. He could not think of giving so much trouble, of taking up the vicar's valuable time, though he admitted that a short halt would not be altogether unwelcome in view of the distance he had come and the distance he had still to go. He permitted himself to be persuaded, and his host conducted him to the back of the house, to where a couple of empty stalls and a coach-house almost in ruins faced a weed-choked yard appropriated now by poultry101 and some pigs.
They re-entered the house by the kitchen, that had a red-brick floor, an open range, and black beams across the low ceiling; they traversed a
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long flagged passage, passed through a swing-door that must once have been covered with green baize, and thence across the hall to the vicar's study. It was a cool and restful room despite its shabby furniture and musty odour.
"I always half expect to see my predecessor102 sitting in my chair," the vicar told him whimsically. "He was here for nearly half a century. These old vicarages are steeped in memories. I have been here myself for over twenty years, and I still feel as if I was a kind of interloper! Everything is practically just the same as when I took the living over. We move very slowly in these benighted103 mountain villages."
Someone passed the open window.
"Rafella!" called the vicar.
Coventry held his breath. What a charming name! Next moment he was gazing at a girl's face framed in passion-flower and roses; and the face was even fairer and more angelic than he had imagined. Delicate, clear-cut features, eyes of heavenly blue, a skin so pink and white that it might almost have been painted, and the hair--the glorious golden hair!
Afterwards he could never very clearly recall what followed. He knew he was introduced to "Rafella" as she stood at the window, that she came in and apologised prettily104 for the mould that
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stained her little hands--she said with engaging simplicity105 that she had been digging potatoes. He knew he was regaled with lemonade and water biscuits, and that she sat and smiled, and looked like a Madonna, while her father talked of missions and asked innumerable questions concerning India. Was the heat out there actually so severe? Was there constant danger from snakes and wild beasts? Was it true that the social life was demoralising to the European? And how about the question of drink, and the example set in that respect, and others, by the English? Also, was it a fact that the Oriental was possessed106 of strange faculties107 that could not be explained, and had Captain Coventry himself ever seen a man climb up a rope and vanish into space?
All of which Captain Coventry answered to the best of his capability108, the whole while cogitating109 how he might contrive110 his next meeting with the vicar's daughter. At last a casual reference to the coming sale of work presented an excellent opportunity.
"I wonder if I might bring my mother and my sister to the show?" he asked with diffidence. "They take such a keen interest in things of that description." And he explained how easy it would be to manage if he chartered a conveyance111 for the afternoon.
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Naturally the idea met with cordial encouragement, and led to further interchange of personal information. By the time Captain Coventry had begun to feel that he could, with decency112, remain no longer, he was on most friendly terms with the Reverend Mr. Forte and Rafella, the clergyman's only child.
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