The Vicar's People
By George Manville Fenn
18 Nov, 2019
“H’m! ah! yes! of course! ‘Clever young engineer—thoroughly scientific—may be worth your while.’ Geoffrey Trethick! Cornishman by descent, of course.”
“It sounds like a Cornishman, papa.”
“Yes, my dear, Rundell and Sharp say
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“H’m! ah! yes! of course! ‘Clever young engineer—thoroughly scientific—may be worth your while.’ Geoffrey Trethick! Cornishman by descent, of course.”
“It sounds like a Cornishman, papa.”
“Yes, my dear, Rundell and Sharp say they have sent me a paragon. Only another adventurer.”
“Poor fellow?” said Rhoda Penwynn, in a low whisper.
“What’s that?” said the first speaker, looking up sharply from his letters to where his daughter sat at the head of his handsomely-furnished breakfast-table.
“I only said, ‘Poor fellow!’ papa,” and the girl flushed slightly as she met the quick, stern look directed at her.
“And why, pray?” Less