The Brentons. Anna Chapin Ray
I shall be the man to get it," he responded.
"You won't, unless you try for it," Catia assured him.
He shook his head. The idea of ecclesiastical wirepulling was repugnant to his nature.
"One doesn't try for things of that kind, Catia," he answered.
"Then one doesn't get them," she retorted curtly.
It was Brenton who broke the next period of silence.
"Besides," he said, as if his sentences had followed each other without break; "I am not at all sure that my work here is done, by any means."
"Scott!" Catia put on the cover of the sugar bowl with a defiant clash. "Surely, you don't mean to stay buried in this little hole much longer?"
Once more his smile showed whimsical.
"Really, Catia, I hadn't thought about it as a hole," he said. "About my staying here or anywhere, I suppose it all depends upon the Bishop."
She pushed her chair back a little from the table, and then clasped her hands upon the table's edge. Her attitude betokened her intention of staying there until the matter had been fought out to a finish.
"Not one half so much upon the Bishop as it does upon yourself," she told him firmly. "The Bishop decides things in the end; but he never originates them. Unless you stir yourself a little and show him that you're restless, you'll be welcome to sit for all time to come in one corner of the diocese. In fact, you have been sitting in a corner for two years. It is high time you showed him you were getting cramps in your knees, and needed a higher seat to straighten them out. There is no especial sense in your wasting your time among these people. Any broken-down old hack ought to be all they've any right to look for."
"But not all they need," Brenton interpolated swiftly.
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