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Rogers comforted him with the assurance that some steps should be taken to ward off the immediate evils that he dreaded. Rogers, when, on returning home, he found the following afflicting note upon his table: "Saville-Row. "I find things settled so that 150l. will remove all difficulty. I am absolutely undone and broken-hearted.
I knew him get 150l. from a gentleman in Devonshire once, and he thinks nothing of getting 30l. of a morning."
Pett home again, all the way reading his Chest accounts, in which I did see things which did not please me; as his allowing himself 300l. for one year's looking to the business of the Chest, and 150l. per annum for the rest of the years. But I found no fault to him himself, but shall when they come to be read at the Board.
When Collins complained of the expense of maintaining so large a body of clergy, Bentley replied that 'the Parliamentary accounts showed that six thousand of the clergy had, at a middle rate, not 50l. a year; and he then added that argument which was subsequently used with so much effect by Sydney Smith viz. that 'talent is attracted into the Church by a few great prizes. Some years later, when Lord Shelburne asked Bishop Watson 'if nothing could be gotten from the Church towards alleviating the burdens of the State, the Bishop replied that the whole revenue of the Church would not yield 150l. a year to each clergyman, and therefore a diminution would be inexpedient unless Government would be contented to have a beggarly and illiterate clergy, which no wise minister would wish. He might have added that, even as it was, a great number of the clergy, if not 'beggarly and illiterate, were either weighed down with the pressure of poverty, or, to escape it, were obliged to have recourse to occupations which were more fit for illiterate men.
He unlocked the iron safe, and took out the sheaf of Wylder's letters, and conned the last one over very carefully. 'Why, said he, holding the text before his eyes in one hand and with the fingers of the other touching the top of his bald forehead, 'Tom Wealdon is not once mentioned in this, nor in any of them; and this palpably refers to some direction. And 150l.? no such sum has been mentioned.
At the end of our conversation, of which I promised to report the purport to Mrs. Hoggarty, the Director was so kind as to say that he had determined on creating a place of private secretary to the Managing Director, and that I should hold that office with an additional salary of 150l. I had 250l. a year, Miss Smith had 70l. per annum to her fortune.
If 200 adults in similar circumstances sign the declaration, a stipend of 150l. is granted; and if 500 persons sign it, the stipend is 200l. the highest amount ever granted towards the support of any one officiating teacher of religion.
We parted quite as angrily as we met; and I cordially vowed that when I had paid the debt into which I had been swindled by her, I would take my 2,000L. and depart to some desert island; or, at the very least, to America, and never see her more, or any of her Israelitish brood. Nabb, and tendering him a cheque for 150L. and his costs, requested to be let out forthwith.
Came prepared with this, Miss Brentwood, which I pray you to accept; shall I be too bold if I say, as a wedding present, from one of your most sincere admirers." He produced a jewel case, and took from it a bracelet, at the sight of which Alice gave an honest womanly cry of delight. And well she might, for the bauble cost 150L. It was a bracelet of gold, representing a snake.
They succeeded beyond their expectations in the management of the mill and tan-yard during their year of probation; and Simon, at the end of that time, was extremely glad to give them a long lease of the premises, upon their paying him down, by way of fine, the sum of 150l.
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