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Fredegond's, lounged lazily in his own neatly padded wickerwork easy-chair, opposite the large lattice-paned windows of his pretty little first-floor rooms in the front quad of Magdalen. 'There's a great deal to be said, Le Breton, in favour of October term, he observed, in his soft, musical voice, as he gazed pensively across the central grass-plot to the crimson drapery of the Founder's Tower.
I may be a terrible free-thinker and all that kind of thing, as the neighbours say I am poor bodies, they never read a word of modern criticism in their lives, heaven bless 'em stragglers from the march of intellect, mere stragglers but I've too much respect for the cloth to bring a curate of St. Fredegond's into such disgrace as that would mean for you, Artie.
I save them from my dinner, Mr. Bursar I save them. If the Church only recognised modest merit as it ought to do! if the bishops only listened with due attention to the sound and scholarly exegesis of my Sunday evening discourses at St. Fredegond's! then, indeed, I might be disposed to regard things through a more satisfied medium the medium of a nice, fat, juicy country living.
'He'd be very much flattered indeed by your interposition on his behalf, no doubt, Popsy; but I'm afraid it wouldn't produce much effect upon his ultimate decision. 'Tell me, Harry, is Mr. Berkeley High Church? 'Oh dear no, I shouldn't say so. I don't suppose he ever gave the subject a single moment's consideration. 'But St. Fredegond's is very High Church, I'm told.
'Ah, yes; but Berkeley's curate of St. Fredegond's, not in virtue of his theology I never heard he'd got any to speak of but in virtue of his musical talents. He went into the Church, I suppose, on purely aesthetic grounds.
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