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"Of course it is not announced - I don't believe even the
Spencers know it yet. I am only telling you now because I know how
dearly" - she did it again - "how dearly interested you are in all
your spiritual children. Marion is engaged to Graham Spencer."
The rector had not been a shining light for years without learning
how to control his expression. He had a second, too, while she
contorted her face again, to recover himself.
"Thank you," he said gravely. "I much appreciate your telling me."
Mrs. Hayden had lowered her voice still more. The revelation took
on the appearance of conspiracy.
"In the early spring, probably," she said, "we shall need your
services, and your blessing."
So that was the end of one dream. He had dreamed so many - in his
youth, of spiritualizing his worldly flock; in middle life, of a
bishopric; he had dreamed of sons, to carry on the name he had meant
to make famous. But the failures of those dreams had been at once
his own failure and his own disappointment.


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