or man, or devil; he yearned to

Lute; "welcome, honest neighbour;"--and up went, at bright noon, Tom
Stableboy's dozen of rockets wrapped around with streamers of glazed
calico--"welcome, welcome!" Good Mr. Evans stood at the door of fine old
Hurstley, in wig, and band, and cassock, to receive back his wandering
sheep that had been lost: and the school-children, ranged upon the
steps, thrillingly sang out the beautiful chant, "I will arise, and go
to my Father, and will say unto Him, 'Father, I have sinned against
Heaven and before Thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son!'"
Every head was uncovered, and every cheek ran down with tears. CHAPTER
LIV. SIR JOHN'S PARTING SPEECH. THEN Sir John, standing up in the
barouche at his own hall-door, addressed the assembled multitude:
"Friends, we are gathered here to-day, in the cause of common justice
and brotherly kindness. There are many of you whom I see around me, my
tenants, neighbours, or dependants, who have met with wrongs and
extortions heretofore, but you all shall be righted in your turn; trust
me, men, the old hard times are gone, your landlord lives among you, and
his first care shall be to redress your many grievances, paying back the
gains of your oppressor." "God bless you, sir, God bless you!" was the
echo from many a gladdened heart. "But before I hear your several claims
in turn, which shall be done to-morrow, our chief duty this day is to
recompense an honest man for all that he has innocently suffered. It is
five-and-thirty years, as I find by my books, on this very first of May,
since Roger Acton first began to work at Hurstley; till within this now
past evil month, he has always been the honest steady fellow that you
knew him from his youth: what say you, men, to having as a bailiff one
of yourselves; a kind and humble man, a good man, the best hand in the
parish in all the works of your vocation--a steady mind, an honest
heart--what say ye all to R
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