Mr Tangier's Vacations Author:Edward Everett Hale Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. AS they came to the house, a wagon drove up behind them, and a hearty voice saluted them. It proved that the speaker was the doctor of the neighbor... more »hood, Dr. Tillinghast. He jumped from the carriage, evidently confident that the horse would stand, and joined the other two. " Is this Mr. Tangier ? " he said with the cordiality of a gentleman accustomed to meet all sorts and conditions of men. "I have just been calling on you at our good friend Mrs. Fairbanks's; Miss Eachel told me that I should find you here, so you must regard this as my call of hospitality. I come to offer you our all,—our meadows, our hills, our prospects, our wild-flowers, our distant beaches, and our neighboring river, with all the gayeties of Tenterdon society." Mr. Tangier thanked him, in the same hearty way, and said that Mrs. Dunster had already told him that he was entitled to the freedom of the village. He also spoke of the pleasant talk he had had with this Mr. Burdett whom he had found at the church. " At the church," said the doctor, with the slightest change in tone ; " that is loyal in you, indeed. Frankly, Mr. Tangier, I divide our summer visitors into two classes: First, those who range themselves on the side of order; next, those who range themselves nowhere, and thus belong, of necessity, to the party of disorder." Tangier laughed. " You remember," said he, " what Byron makes the Devil say: — ' He who bows not to God, has bowed to me.' " The doctor smiled his approval. " It is very good gospel," said he, " whether it come from Byron, or the Devil, or from both. Do not think that I am too serious about it. Of course, when people come here to play, they come to play. I understand that very well. But here are Mrs. Dunster and I, and Rachel Fairbanks, and Jane Campb...« less