"You are my only real interest now, dear. If your father had lived - but it is useless to talk of what might have been. But I need you to help me. There was a gentlemen here today. You should have been here to entertain him
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In a life spent in church work, the Dean had never become accustomed to the vigilance of parishioners in observing his every movement, or to the rapidity with which rumour and surmise circulated among them. If their zeal for their salvation, he thought, began to equal their zeal for minding his business, the New Jerusalem would quickly be at hand.