6. THE TWENTY-SEVENTH OF AUGUSTOn going to Budmouth three days later, she found to her surprise
that the steward had been there, had introduced himself, and had
seen her brother. A few delicacies had been brought him also by the
same hand. Owen spoke in warm terms of Manston and his free and
unceremonious call, as he could not have refrained from doing of
any person, of any kind, whose presence had served to help away the
tedious hours of a long day, and who had, moreover, shown that sort
of consideration for him which the accompanying basket
implied—antecedent consideration, so telling upon all invalids—and
which he so seldom experienced except from the hands of his
sister.
How should he perceive, amid this tithe-paying of mint, and
anise, and cummin, the weightier matters whi
