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The priest in his surplice and the choirboy carrying the holy water receiver, who had both alighted from the mourning coach, walked on ahead. It was a large flat cemetery, still in its youth, laid out by rule and line in the suburban waste land, and divided into squares by broad symmetrical paths.
"Will you pardon my intruding upon you here, Mr. Dean?" he began, in his gentle, courteous manner; and with the urgency of the occasion, all his energy seemed to come to him. Timidity and tremor vanished, and he stood before the dean, a true gentleman and a fearless one. The dean still wore his surplice, and his trencher lay on the table near him. Arthur placed his own hat by its side. "Mr.
"Colette," he said, his voice tense, "if you knew what your little note meant! Did " "Wait until I explain, John. I must tell you about the surplice." She repeated Amarilly's account of the peregrinations of the robe. "Well?" he asked bewildered, "I don't see what that has to do with " "Everything. There was something of mine " she turned a deep crimson "in the pocket of that surplice." "Yours!
The incumbent was hovering near in his surplice, and the pew-opener was all in a fluster at the idea of a runaway marriage. Brian came out of the dusky background the daylight being tempered by small painted windows in heavy stone mullions as Ida entered the church. Everything was ready. Before she knew how it came to pass, she was standing before the altar, and the fatal words were being spoken.
"I'll wring his neck for him when he comes again." But when the service was over, and he had taken his surplice off, she passed him in the nave, so close that he might have touched her, and looked at him with eyes just like the Boy when he was shy; gave him a quick half-frightened look, and blushed vividly; gave him time to speak, too, had he chosen.
Do you still enjoy your singing?" Adèle laughed. "My 'occupation's gone," she said. "We are supplanted by a boy choir. The present minister likes that better. A saucy little fellow who brings our evening paper and fights his business competitors once in a while is one of our successors. He looks quite cherubic in a surplice." "And you?"
When the Bishop of Moray preached before Charles in his rochet, on the king's visit to Edinburgh in 1633, it was the first instance of its use since the Reformation. The innovation was followed by the issue of a Royal warrant which directed all ministers to use the surplice in divine worship.
How he prides himself in sweeping and trimming weekly the pews and benches, which were formerly swept but once in three years, in having the surplice darned, washed and laid up in fresh lavender, better than any other parish, in having discovered a thief with a Bible and key in his love of ringing, in his tutoring young men and maidens to tune their voice as it were with a psaltery, in being invited to the banquets of the Church officers, in the hints he has given to young clergymen, in his loyal attachment to the interests of 'our High Church. Such was the Parish Clerk of the eighteenth century, the personage upon whom the charge of the musical part of the service mainly devolved, whose duty it was to give out the Psalm, to lead it, very commonly to read it out line by line, and frequently to select what was to be sung.
Gilbert said that the conjunction of actor with parson showed that all Henry cared about was the chance to show off. "All you want is to get yourself up," he said. "If you were a parson, you could get yourself up in a surplice!..." "He'd turn High Churchman," Roger interrupted, "and trot about in chasubles and copes!..."
"Eh bien! sacristan," called the turnkey. "Make haste with your load. I have this death to report. He is not so pretty that you must stand gazing at him all night!" I had the surplice over the sacristan's head and over mine, and backed out with my load, facing the room.
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