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Atterbury and others seem actually to resent my identification of our Lord's Spirit with the social conscience as well as the individual conscience of our time." The bishop nodded. "Hodder," he demanded abruptly, leaning forward over his desk, "how did this thing happen?" "You mean, sir " There was, in the bishop's voice, a note almost pathetic.
I could hear Atterbury saying to victims, as he smiled at me, indulgent and venerating, "That's our vice-president, Colonel Pickens . . . fortune in Western investments . . . delightfully plain manners, but . . . could sign his check for half a million . . . simple as a child . . . wonderful head . . . conservative and careful almost to a fault." Atterbury managed the business.
Mr. Atterbury demanded. "I mean that they do not succeed in making Christians." "And by that you imply that the members of your congregation, those who have been brought up and baptized and confirmed in this church, are not Christians?" "I am sorry to say a great many of them are not," said the rector. "In other words, you affirm that the sacrament of baptism is of no account."
I'd like to find out where you were a-visitin'. And you've never heard tell of the Brice homestead, at Westbury, that was Colonel Wilton Brice's, who fought in the Revolution? I'm astonished at you, Mirandy. When I used to be at the Dales', in Mount Vernon Street, in thirty-seven, Mrs. Charles Atterbury Brice used to come there in her carriage, a-callin'. She was Appleton's mother. Severe!
Atterbury got to liking me and Buck and he begun to throw on the canvas for us some of the schemes that had caused his hair to evacuate. He had one scheme for starting a National bank on $45 that made the Mississippi Bubble look as solid as a glass marble. He talked this to us for three days, and when his throat was good and sore we told him about the roll we had.
Upon another vain endeavor to dissuade the bishop from a scheme his king did not approve had Sir Richard journeyed to Rochester. He had had his pains for nothing. Atterbury had kept him there, entertaining him, and seeking in his turn to engulf the agent in the business that was toward business which was ultimately to suck down Atterbury and his associates. Sir Richard, however, was very firm.
At their head stood Ormond, the second and last Duke of his name, and with him were associated at one stage or another of his design, Bolingbroke, Orrery, Bishop Atterbury, and other influential persons. But the partisans of the elector were the first in the field, and King George was accordingly proclaimed, on the 1st of August, at London, and on the 6th of August, at Dublin.
By the way, Stephen Atterbury always had such a respect for your father's opinions " "My father was not an Abolitionist, sir," said Stephen, smiling. "Quite right, quite right," said Mr. Cluyme. "But I am not sure, since I have come here, that I have not some sympathy and respect for the Abolitionists." Mr. Cluyme gave a perceptible start.
Oxford was not less proud of a youth, whose great powers, first essayed in this conflict, afterwards troubled the Church and the State during forty eventful years, Francis Atterbury.
He looked tired and worn; sick, the rector thought, and felt a sudden swelling of compassion for the pompous little man whose fibre was not as tough as that of these other condottieri: as Francis Ferguson's, for instance, although his soft hand and pink and white face framed in the black whiskers would seem to belie any fibre whatever. Gordon Atterbury hemmed and hawed, "Ah, Mr.
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