A square tower squatted in the middle of the building, and out of it rose the octagon of the bell tower, and in the tower wall was the great oak door studded with great nails.
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The high red walls of the college faced the dismal terraces, and the triple line of diamond-paned and iron-barred windows stared upon the ugly Staffordshire landscape.
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The lower terrace was approached by an imposing flight of steps, there were myriads of leaves in the air, and the college bell rang in its high red tower.
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And to see the sharp spire of the distant church you had to look closely, and slanting slowly upwards the great plain drew a long and melancholy line across the sky.
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The drive turned and turned again in great sloping curves; more divines were passed, and then there came a long terrace with a balustrade and a view of the open country, now full of mist.
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and, lying behind the wind-swept opening, gravel walks appeared in grey fragments, and the green spaces of the cricket field with a solitary divine reading his breviary.
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In large and serpentine curves the road wound through a wood of small beech trees--so small that in the November dishevelment the plantations were like so much brushwood;
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She had no right to do such a thing; and, striving to determine on a line of conduct, Mr Hare examined abstractedly the place he was passing through.
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He had been deceived; Lizzie had deceived him.
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This was very compromising.
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Lizzie had been to Shoreham, and had taken Kitty away with her; he had been sent to Stanton College to beg John Norton to return to Thornby Place, and to say what he could in favour of marriage generally.
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It was very simple.
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Then he viewed the scheme in general outline and in remote detail.
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He leaned forward as if he were going to tell the driver to return, but before he could do so the lodge-keeper opened the great gate, and the hansom cab rattled under the archway.
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Fancies had long hung about the confines of his mind, but nothing had struck him with the full force of a thought until suddenly he understood the exact purport of his mission to Stanton College.
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So he had thought of his daughter's marriage.
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If this thing was to be, it would be.
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Why strive to hasten events?
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He had suffered much; but these last years had been quiet, free from despair at least, and he wished to drift a little longer with the tide of this time.
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and to send this fair flower to his great--to his only--friend, was a joy, and the bitterness of temporary loss was forgotten in the sweetness of the sharing.
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A suspicion of match-making sometimes crossed Mr Hare's mind, but it faded in the knowledge that John was always at Stanton College;
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but the parsonage was so lonely for Kitty, and there were luncheon and tennis parties at Thornby Place, and Mrs Norton took the girl out for drives, and together they visited all the county families.
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Mr Hare thought it harsh that his daughter should be so constantly taken from him,
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Kitty was as much at Thornby Place as at the Rectory, and in the gaity of her bright eyes, and in the shine of her gold-brown hair--for ever slipping from the gold hair-pins in frizzed masses--Mrs Norton continued her dreams of her son's marriage.
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Her son had deserted her, and now all her affections were centred in Kitty.
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but she whom Mrs Norton would have preferred to all others was the daughter of her old friend.
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Mrs Norton had had projects of wealth and title for her son, but his continued disdain of women and the love of women had long since forced her to abandon her hopes, and now anyone he might select she would gladly welcome;
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Kitty was now the only one that remained to him.
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and in his afflictions--in his widowerhood--when his children quickly followed their mother to the grave, Mrs Norton's form, face, and words had steadied him, and had helped him to bear with a life of crumbling ruin.
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He had advised her on the management of her estate, on the education of her son;
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