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The exaltation of Ansdore from farm to manor had turned many keys, and Joanna now received calls from doctors' and clergymen's wives, who had hitherto ignored her except commercially. It was at Fairfield Vicarage that Ellen met the wife of a major at Lydd camp, and through her came to turn the heads of various subalterns.
"You are very well up in Miss Yonge's novels, Miss Beecham." Mr. Trollope is good for that too, but not so good. All that I know of clergymen's families I have got from her. I can recognize you quite well, and your sister, but the younger ones puzzle me; they are not in Miss Yonge; they are too much like other children, too naughty. I don't mean anything disagreeable.
And then as to suppers of all modes in which one may extend one's hospitality to a large acquaintance, they are the most costly. "It is horrid to think that we should go out among our friends for the mere sake of eating and drinking," Mrs. Proudie would say to the clergymen's wives from Barsetshire. "It shows such a sensual propensity." "Indeed it does, Mrs.
But her mind such are the limitations of even clergymen's wives was now absorbed by her own misfortune. Her very cap-strings seemed to hang limp with depression, as she followed Sarah dejectedly into the kitchen, and gave what attention she could to those second-best arrangements so depressing to the idealist temper. Poor soul! All the charm and glitter of her little social adventure was gone.
A sudden peal of laughter stopped her, whereupon she threw up her head, and her eyes flashed: but her stout ladyship patted her hands and said: "No offence, Glo, but you re'lly mustn't they're all clergymen's daughters, doncher know?" A sharp knock came to the door, followed by the first call of the call-boy. "Half-hour, ladies."
Reflex action, the mechanical sympathy, if I may so call it, of distant parts; Instinct, which is crystallized intelligence, an absolute law with its invariable planes and angles introduced into the sphere of consciousness, as raphides are inclosed in the living cells of plants; Intellect, the operation of the thinking principle through material organs, with an appreciable waste of tissue in every act of thought, so that our clergymen's blood has more phosphates to get rid of on Monday than on any other day of the week; Will, theoretically the absolute determining power, practically limited in different degrees by the varying organization of races and individuals, annulled or perverted by different ill-understood organic changes; on all these subjects our knowledge is in its infancy, and from the study of some of them the interdict of the Vatican is hardly yet removed.
Wasn't there some directory of clergymen's names? she was sure this was a clergyman, nobody else would have a library of such weighty volumes. Her fingers ran along the shelves and presently she found what she wanted Crocker's Clergy List of 1879. She opened the book and presently found, "Stringer, Laurence Thomas Benjamin, Vicar of Upper Staines, Deans Folly, Upper Reach Village, near Staines."
Shelton now felt that he must justify his saying somehow. "I don't know," he said, "only one hears of such a lot of cases clergymen's families; I've two uncles of my own, who " A new expression gathered on the parson's face; his mouth had tightened, and his chin receded slightly. "Why, he 's like a mule!" thought Shelton. His eyes, too, had grown harder, greyer, and more parroty.
'What a condition, said the doctor, 'for the son of a clergyman of the Church of England. 'I don't see why clergymen's sons should pay their debts more than other young men, said Charlotte. 'He's had as much from me since he left school as is held sufficient for the eldest son of many a nobleman, said the angry father. 'Well, sir, said Charlotte, 'give him another chance.
By a kind of instinct distilled from his experience of clergymen's belongings, Godfrey had expected to see a dowdy female, with a red, fat face, and watery eyes, perhaps wearing an apron and a black dress hooked awry, accompanied by a snub-nosed little girl with straight hair, and a cold in the head.
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