rson approaching had
come to seek her, and must have seen her before she saw him. So she sat
down again defiantly and waited. She did not look his way, although he
raised his hat to her more than once.

As he comes near we can see that he is a handsome, rather stiff looking
man, with full formal dark whiskers, clearly cut face, and white teeth.
His hat is very shiny. He wears a black frock coat buttoned across the
chest, and dark trowsers, and dainty little boots, and gray gloves, and
has a diamond pin in his necktie. He is Mr. Augustus Sheppard, a very
considerable person indeed in the town. Dukes-Keeton, it should be said,
had three classes or estates. The noble owners of the park and the
guests whom they used to bring to visit them in their hospitable days
made one estate. The upper class of the town made another estate; and
the working people and the poor generally made the third. These three
classes (there were at present only two of them represented in Keeton)
were divided by barriers which it never occurred to any imagination to
think of getting over. Mr. Augustus Sheppard was a leading man among the
townspeople. His father was a solicitor and land agent of old standing,
and Mr. Augustus followed his father's profession, and now did by far
the greater part of its work. He was a member of the Church of England
of course, but he made it part of his duty to be on the best terms with
the Dissenters, for Keeton was growing to be very strong in dissent of
late years. Mr. Augustus Sheppard had done a great deal for the mental
and other improvement of the town. It was he who got up the Mutual
Improvement Society, and made himself responsible for the rent of the
hall in which the winter course of lectures, organized by him, used to
take place; and he always gave a lecture himself every season, and he
took the chair very often and introduced other lecturers. He always
worked most cordially with the Rev. Mr. Saulsbury in trying to restrict
the number of public houses, and he was one of the few persons whom Mrs.
Saulsbury cordially admired. He had a word of formal kindness for every
one, and was never heard to say an ill-natured thing of any one behind
his or her back. He was vaguely believed to be ambitious of worldly
success, but only in a proper and becoming way, and far-seeing people
looked forward to finding him one day in the House of Commons.

As he came near the mausoleum he raised his hat again, and then the girl
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