human
You'll not go and make no reflections, sir? said the troubled deacon;
gpt
Thank you, Tozer, all the same, said Vincent, who, notwithstanding his preoccupation, saw the good butterman's anxiety, and appreciated it.
human
I know very well that all that is pleasant to-night is owing to you. Don't suppose I don't understand how you've fought for me; but now the business is mine, and I can take no more advice. Think no more of it; you have done all that you could do.
gpt
I have done my humble endeavour, sir, as is my dooty, to keep things straight, said the deacon, doubtfully;
human
My sister has come back almost from the grave to-night, said Vincent;
gpt
I told her my mother would come to save us, said poor Susan. When she dropt to sleep at last, the mother leant her aching frame upon some pillows, afraid to move, and slept too, supreme protector, in her tender weakness, of these two young lives. As she woke from time to time to see her child sleeping by her side, thoughts of her son's deliverance stole across Mrs. Vincent's mind to sweeten her repose. The watch-light burned dimly in the room, and threw a gigantic shadow of her little figure, half erect on the side of the bed, still in her black gown and the close white cap, which could not be less than dainty in its neatness, even in that vigil, upon the further wall. The widow slept only in snatches, waking often and keeping awake, as people do when they grow old; her thoughts, ever alive and active, varying between her projects for the future, to save Susan from all painful knowledge of her own story, and the thankful recollection of Arthur's rescue from his troubles. From echoes of Tozer's speech, and of the cheers of the flock, her imagination wandered off into calculations of how she could find another place of habitation as pleasant, perhaps, as Lonsdale, and even to the details of her removal from thence, what portions of her furniture she would sell, and which take with her.
human
For now that Arthur has got out of his troubles, we must not stay to get him into fresh difficulties with his flock,