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His eyes wandered to the ; a glittering strip of green light

between the bowed shutters meant that the sun was in the trees Yes;

to be sure, for the birds had suddenly stopped singing

Dr Lavendar yawned and looked at his watch; five o'clock He would

have liked to get up, but Mary would be worried if she kneas

awake so long before breakfast Well; he ht for that He could see all the furniture; he

could count the pleats in the sun-burst of the tester; he could,

perhaps, see to read? He put his hand out for Robinson Crusoe,

and after that he possessed his soul in patience until he knew that

Mary would allow him to come down-stairs

It was in one of those peaceful dawns early in June that he decided

that the o and

talk to Benjah truth deood sense he did not mean to insist upon

it too much; Benjamin's anxiety was the Lord's opportunity--so Dr

Lavendar thought He would ad

the matter before his father Then he would pin Benjamin down to a

date That secured, he would present a definite proposal to Samuel

"He is the lion in the way," he told hie Benjamin" Yet surely if he could only put it

properly to Samuel, if he could express the pitiful trouble in the old

father's soul, the senior warden's heart would soften "It ht, and closed his eyes for a moment