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Mr Palmer, senior, sometimes recoiled into intolerance and

orthodoxy, and bewildered his son who, to use one of his own phrases,

'hardly knehere his father was' Partly the reaction was due to

the oscillation which accoht,

but mainly it was caused by Mr Palmer's discontent with Frank's

appropriation of a sentiment or doctrine of which he was not the

lawful owner Frank, however, was so hearty, so affectionate, and so

cheerful, that it was impossible not to love him dearly

In his visits to Fene, for the

'Crown and Sceptre' was his headquarters, and Madge ell enough

aware that she had been noticed He had inquired casually who it was

who lived next door, and when the waiter told hier, Frank remeood, a clerk in a bank

in London, as one of his best friends He did not fail to ask his

father about this friend, and to obtain an introduction to the

He had now brought it to Fenhted, he had presented it

Mrs Hopgood, of course, recollected Mr Palmer perfectly, and the

welcohtful to

connect earlier and happier days with the present, and she was proud