Sir Godfrey's grand-daughters : a novel . CHAPTER VI. Pamelas dinner-party. A stander-by may sometimes see more of the game thanhe who plays it.—Dean Swift. Sunday was scarcely a day of rest at Vicarage; the frequent services andthe schools hardly afforded a moments leisureto the hard-worked Vicar. His only assistantwas a young deacon, fresh from Oxford, withweak eyes and the zeal of an Apostle. It wasunderstood that he had a leaning towardsritualism, and that he was not altogether Intouch with his Vicar ; and Clare had morethan once expressed her surprise at herhusbands forbearance.
Sir Godfrey's grand-daughters : a novel . CHAPTER VI. Pamelas dinner-party. A stander-by may sometimes see more of the game thanhe who plays it.—Dean Swift. Sunday was scarcely a day of rest at Vicarage; the frequent services andthe schools hardly afforded a moments leisureto the hard-worked Vicar. His only assistantwas a young deacon, fresh from Oxford, withweak eyes and the zeal of an Apostle. It wasunderstood that he had a leaning towardsritualism, and that he was not altogether Intouch with his Vicar ; and Clare had morethan once expressed her surprise at herhusbands forbearance. * I often wonder at your patience, Horace,she said, one Sunday night after supper,when Mr. Hathaway had been bristling all I04 SIR GODFREYS GRAND-DAUGHTERS over with aggressive suggestions, which theVicar had received with good-humouredtoleration. The Rev. Simon Hathaway was a small,pale yoimg man, and, with his closely-shornfair hair and gleaming glasses, he had rathera limp, meek appearance ; but unfortunatelyhis looks belied him. He
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