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

           

           ThecommandingelevationofRainbarrowhadbeenchosenfortworeasons:first,thatitoccupiedacentralpositionamongtheremotecottagesaround;secondly,thatthepreacherthereoncouldbeseenfromalladjacentpointsassoonashearrivedathispost,theviewofhimbeingthusaconvenientsignaltothosestragglerswhowishedtodrawnear.Thespeakerwasbareheaded,andthebreezeateachwaftgentlyliftedandloweredhishair,somewhattoothinforamanofhisyears,thesestillnumberinglessthanthirty-three.Heworeashadeoverhiseyes,andhisfacewaspensiveandlined;but,thoughthesebodilyfeaturesweremarkedwithdecaytherewasnodefectinthetonesofhisvoice,whichwererich,musical,andstirring.Hestatedthathisdiscoursestopeopleweretobesometimessecular,andsometimesreligious,butneverdogmatic;andthathistextswouldbetakenfromallkindsofbooks.Thisafternoonthewordswereasfollows:—

           “’Andthekingroseuptomeether,andbowedhimselfuntoher,andsatdownonhisthrone,andcausedaseattobesetfortheking’smother;andshesatonhisrighthand.Thenshesaid,Idesireonesmallpetitionofthee;Ipraytheesaymenotnay.Andthekingsaiduntoher,Ask,on,mymother:forIwillnotsaytheenay

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