Mary Marston
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George MacDonald. Mary Marston
CHAPTER I. THE SHOP
CHAPTER II. CUSTOMERS
CHAPTER III. THE ARBOR AT THORNWICK
CHAPTER IV. GODFREY WARDOUR
CHAPTER V. GODFREY AND LETTY
CHAPTER VI. TOM HELMER
CHAPTER VII. DURNMELLING
CHAPTER VIII. THE OAK
CHAPTER IX. CONFUSION
CHAPTER X. THE HEATH AND THE HUT
CHAPTER XI. WILLIAM MARSTON
CHAPTER XII. MARY'S DREAM
CHAPTER XIII. THE HUMAN SACRIFICE
CHAPTER XIV. UNGENEROUS BENEVOLENCE
CHAPTER XV. THE MOONLIGHT
CHAPTER XVI. THE MORNING
CHAPTER XVII. THE RESULT
CHAPTER XVIII. MARY AND GODFREY
CHAPTER XIX. MARY IN THE SHOP
CHAPTER XX. THE WEDDING-DRESS
CHAPTER XXI. MR. REDMAIN
CHAPTER XXII. MRS. REDMAIN
CHAPTER XXIII. THE MENIAL
CHAPTER XXIV. MRS. REDMAIN'S DRAWING-ROOM
CHAPTER XXV. MARY'S RECEPTION
CHAPTER XXVI. HER POSITION
CHAPTER XXVII. MR. AND MRS. HELMER
CHAPTER XXVIII. MARY AND LETTY
CHAPTER XXIX. THE EVENING STAR
CHAPTER XXX. A SCOLDING
CHAPTER XXXI. SEPIA
CHAPTER XXXII. HONOR
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE INVITATION
CHAPTER XXXIV. A STRAY SOUND
CHAPTER XXXV. THE MUSICIAN
CHAPTER XXXVI. A CHANGE
CHAPTER XXXVII. LYDGATE STEET
CHAPTER XXXVIII. GODFREY AND LETTY
CHAPTER XXXIX. RELIEF
CHAPTER XL. GODFREY AND SEPIA
CHAPTER XLI. THE HELPER
CHAPTER XLII. THE LEPER
CHAPTER XLIII. MARY AND MR. REDMAIN
CHAPTER XLIV. JOSEPH JASPER
CHAPTER XLV. THE SAPPHIRE
CHAPTER XLVI. REPARATION
CHAPTER XLVII. ANOTHER CHANGE
CHAPTER XLVIII. DISSOLUTION
CHAPTER XLIX. THORNWICK
CHAPTER L. WILLIAM AND MARY MARSTON
CHAPTER LI. A HARD TASK
CHAPTER LII. A SUMMONS
CHAPTER LIII. A FRIEND IN NEED
CHAPTER LIV. THE NEXT NIGHT
CHAPTER LV. DISAPPEARANCE
CHAPTER LVI. A CATASTROPHE
CHAPTER LVII. THE END OF THE BEGINNING
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The next day was Saturday, a busy one at the shop. From the neighboring villages and farms came customers not a few; and ladies, from the country-seats around, began to arrive as the hours went on. The whole strength of the establishment was early called out. Busiest in serving was the senior partner, Mr. Turnbull. He was a stout, florid man, with a bald crown, a heavy watch-chain of the best gold festooned across the wide space between waistcoat-button-hole and pocket, and a large hemispheroidal carbuncle on a huge fat finger, which yet was his little one. He was close-shaved, double-chinned, and had cultivated an ordinary smile to such an extraordinary degree that, to use the common hyperbole, it reached from ear to ear. By nature he was good-tempered and genial; but, having devoted every mental as well as physical endowment to the making of money, what few drops of spiritual water were in him had to go with the rest to the turning of the mill-wheel that ground the universe into coin. In his own eyes he was a strong churchman, but the only sign of it visible to others was the strength of his contempt for dissenters—which, however, excepting his partner and Mary, he showed only to church-people; a dissenter's money being, as he often remarked, when once in his till, as good as the best churchman's.
To the receptive eye he was a sight not soon to be forgotten, as he bent over a piece of goods outspread before a customer, one hand resting on the stuff, the other on the yard-measure, his chest as nearly touching the counter as the protesting adjacent parts would permit, his broad smooth face turned up at right angles, and his mouth, eloquent even to solemnity on the merits of the article, now hiding, now disclosing a gulf of white teeth. No sooner was anything admitted into stock, than he bent his soul to the selling of it, doing everything that could be done, saying everything he could think of saying, short of plain lying as to its quality: that he was not guilty of. To buy well was a care to him, to sell well was a greater, but to make money, and that as speedily as possible, was his greatest care, and his whole ambition.
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Letty bashfully murmured the names of the two.
"I guessed as much," said Wardour. "Pray sit down, Miss Marston. For the sake of your dresses, I will go and change my boots. May I come and join you after?"
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