Dinah quite
glowed with innocent pleasure as she listened to them. "It is so
seldom the dear vicar gets any one to talk on his favourite
subjects, but one could see that Mr. Herrick is after his own
heart," she remarked, as they sat on the terrace drinking their
coffee and waiting for the gentlemen to join them.
"He is certainly very clever," observed Elizabeth thoughtfully.
"David was unusually quiet," went on Dinah; but her sister
apparently did not hear this, for she went on talking about the
advantage of a more varied reading.
"I am such an ignoramus," she continued, "when those men were
talking about the MSS. in that old unknown monastery, I felt like a
little goggle-eyed charity-school girl. When I get Mr. Herrick alone
I mean to ask him about the Behistun Inscription;" and then Mr.
Carlyon strolled towards them, followed by Cedric, and Elizabeth,
who had finished her coffee, advanced towards them.
"They are still at it tooth and nail," observed David in an amused
tone. "I should have stopped to listen to them, only this fellow was
so sick of the discussion.
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