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The Rector bolted: he never slackened pace nor drew breath till he was safe in the vacant library of the Rectory, among old Mr Bury's book-shelves. It seemed the only safe place in Carlingford to the languishing transplanted Fellow of All-Souls.
Next to my Johnsoniana are my Gibbons two editions, if you please, for my old complete one being somewhat crabbed in the print I could not resist getting a set of Bury's new six-volume presentment of the History. In reading that book you don't want to be handicapped in any way. You want fair type, clear paper, and a light volume.
Bury's sitting-room in fact, which, as a regular sojourner, she had been able to secure and furnish after her need.
It is very sad that there should be nobody able to enter into the labours of such a saint." "Indeed," said Miss Wodehouse, who was excited, in spite of herself, by this conversation, "I think the Carlingford people go quite as much to church as in Mr Bury's days. I don't think there is less religion than there used to be: there are not so many prayer meetings, perhaps; but "
People who had been used to discover a great many of old Mr Bury's personal peculiarities in his sermons, and who, of recent days, had found many allusions which it was easy to interpret in the discourses of Mr Morgan, retired altogether baffled from the clear and succinct brevity of the Curate of St Roque's.
But Freddie says that I've got to meet him at that tiresome Foreign Office! So I can only stay ten minutes. How are you?" then, in a lower voice, almost a whisper, which, however, reached Sir Wilfrid Bury's ears "worried to death?" Mademoiselle Le Breton raised eyes and shoulders for a moment, then, smiling, put her finger to her lip.
Q. Is there any provision for stiffening the crown of the furnace in a locomotive? A. The roof of the internal fire box, whether flat as in Stephenson's engines, or dome shaped as in Bury's, requires to be stiffened with cross stay bars, but the bars require to be stronger and more numerous when applied to a flat surface.
As for Thomas, he was at no pains to conceal his sentiments, but conducted himself with distant politeness towards his master, expressing the feelings of the household with all the greater freedom that he had been in possession of the Rectory since Mr Bury's time, and felt himself more secure in his tenure than any incumbent, as was natural to a man who had already outlived two of these temporary tenants.
Only one positive impression remained that Jacob Delafield had somehow grown, vaguely but enormously, in mental and moral bulk during the years since he had left Oxford the years of Bury's Persian exile. Sir Wilfrid had been an intimate friend of his dead father, Lord Hubert, and on very friendly terms with his lethargic, good-natured mother.
The same thing happened at Oxford. The quadrangle of one College was entirely covered 'with a thick bed of torn books and manuscripts. The rioters in the Protector Somerset's time broke into the 'Aungerville Library, as De Bury's collection was called, and burnt all the books.
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