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IV. Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His Vocation

           Buthisheartwasheavy,thatMotherhadNOTcrownedhiminthedayofhisespousalsandinthedayofthegladnessofhisheart.Andeventshadborneouttheaccuracyofherjudgment,andprovedthedevotednessofhercare.HeshouldhaveheededherforEustacia’ssakeevenmorethanforhisown.“Itwasallmyfault,”hewhispered.“O,mymother,mymother!wouldtoGodthatIcouldlivemylifeagain,andendureforyouwhatyouenduredforme!”

           OntheSundayafterthisweddinganunusualsightwastobeseenonRainbarrow.Fromadistancetheresimplyappearedtobeamotionlessfigurestandingonthetopofthetumulus,justasEustaciahadstoodonthatlonelysummitsometwoyearsandahalfbefore.Butnowitwasfinewarmweather,withonlyasummerbreezeblowing,andearlyafternooninsteadofdulltwilight.ThosewhoascendedtotheimmediateneighbourhoodoftheBarrowperceivedthattheerectforminthecentre,piercingthesky,wasnotreallyalone.RoundhimupontheslopesoftheBarrowanumberofheathmenandwomenwererecliningorsittingattheirease.Theylistenedtothewordsofthemanintheirmidst,whowaspreaching,whiletheyabstractedlypulledheather,strippedferns,ortossedpebblesdowntheslope.ThiswasthefirstofaseriesofmorallecturesorSermonsontheMount,whichweretobedeliveredfromthesameplaceeverySundayafternoonaslongasthefineweatherlasted.

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