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Updated: June 30, 2025
You could make toast for yourself if you wished, and there was a big fresh loaf, with excellent butter, marmalade, and jam not an ascetic breakfast at all. There were daily papers on the table, and no one talked. I did not see Father Payne, who must have come in later. After breakfast, Barthrop showed me the rooms of the house.
He's awfully judicious, but he must have a lead. He's a submissioner, I'm afraid, as a witty prelate once said! You know the two sides of the choir, Decani and Cantoris as they are called. Decani always begin the psalms and say the versicles, Cantoris always respond. People are always one or the other, and Barthrop is a born Cantoris." We did not go very far, and he soon proposed to return.
But they are reticent about money as a matter of duty, because they are sure that everyone is deeply interested. People talk about money with nods and winks and hints those are all the signs of a sacred mystery!" "Well, I wonder," said Barthrop, "whether we are as base as you seem to think!"
But it is hard to describe him, because he can't do anything much, and you might think he was indolent; and yet he is the biggest person I have ever seen, the one drawback being that he credits other people with being big too." "I notice that you call him 'Father Payne," said Vincent. "Does that mean anything in particular?" "No," said Barthrop, smiling.
It was accepted, and a reply returned, equally formal in the trumpeting of Christian names, wherein Ralph Barthrop Morton acknowledged the challenge of Richard Doria Feverel, and was his man. The match came off on a midsummer morning, under the direction of Captain Algernon.
How long has he seemed to be ill, by the way?" "Some three or four months, I think," said Barthrop. "But it is difficult when you see anyone every day to realise a change and then he is always cheerful." "He is," said the doctor. "I never saw a better patient. He told me his symptoms like a doctor describing someone else's case, I never heard anything so impersonal! We managed to catch Dr.
Father Payne was a big solid man, as I have said, but he contrived to give the impression of being even bigger than he was. It was like the Irish estate, of which its owner said that it had more land to the acre than any place he knew. This was the result, I suppose, of what Barthrop once dryly called the "effortless expansion" of Father Payne's personality.
But, on the other hand, there are hundreds of fine creatures who have been hopelessly buried for ever and ever under their biographies the sepulchre made sure, the stone sealed, and the watch set." "But there are some good biographies?" said Barthrop. "About a dozen," said Father Payne. "I won't give a list of them, or I should become like our friend the merchant.
And it was not until she was being in a sense almost forcibly drawn away from me by the claims of others that I learned, from the manner in which she was addressed by Lady Barthrop, that she, Cynthia Lane, of whom I had thought only as one of Lane's five sisters, as one among my own fellow guests, was indeed the guest of the occasion, and the betrothed of Lady Barthrop's younger son.
I often feel: 'How these young men must be hating this gibbering and giggling ape, which after all is not really me!" I tried to reassure him, but he shook his head, though with a smiling air. "Barthrop is not like that," he said, "the wise Barthrop! He is never suspicious or hasty he does not think it necessary to affirm; yet you are never in any doubt what he thinks!
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