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Ashe saw Thurston look inquiringly at Strathmore, as if to ask if the latter was not intending to reply, but Strathmore sat silent. "Don't you suppose Mr. Strathmore means to speak?" Mrs. Fenton whispered. "He almost always does speak after Father Frontford, and he has expressed very strong views about the charities." "I cannot understand why he doesn't speak," Ashe responded.
I had to come away without saying good-by to him, and in answer to my letter he says that Father Frontford advises him not to see me for the present." Mrs. Herman sighed, playing with her fan. "Life is hard for a nature like his," answered she. "He is born to be a martyr. He has the martyr temperament. It's part of our inheritance from Puritanism, I suppose."
"Then if Miss Morison will promise to continue the donations of Mrs. Frostwinch, the position of the beneficiaries will be the same toward her as toward Mrs. Frostwinch." Maurice bent forward quickly, unable longer to maintain an appearance of calm. "Father Frontford," he exclaimed, "you certainly cannot ask this of Miss Morison! It would be sheer impertinence!
He came with a start to the consciousness of where he was, and that he had almost run into the Rev. De Lancy Candish. The thought flashed through his mind that Father Frontford had been too deeply absorbed in his plans to notice the bruised face of his deacon. "How do you do?" he exclaimed impulsively. "Providence has sent you to me. Can you spare me a little of your time?"
"Well, this is a letter that she wrote to a rector in the western part of the State, his name was Briggs or Biggs, or something of that kind. She said that if he didn't vote for Father Frontford she could get him out of his parish." "What!" exclaimed Philip. "She couldn't have written such a thing!" "There's a fac-simile of it in the hands of every member of the convention."
On the other hand, he had not been bred in theological subtilties without having come to see that the act cannot be judged without the motive, and he had been more nearly touched by the words of Father Frontford than he would have been willing to confess.
"If this is all that is troubling you," Strathmore remarked, "it seems to me that your position, though it may not be pleasant, is not very tragical. Our bishops are generally willing to absolve from vows of celibacy." "I doubt if Father Frontford would be," Maurice commented involuntarily. "That is perhaps one of his virtues in the eyes of his supporters," Strathmore suggested with a twinkle.
One thing we may be sure of and be grateful to God for. The church is certainly too great and too stable to be shaken by the mistakes of any one man. If we differ sometimes about the best way of showing it outwardly, we at least are one in wishing the best interests of religion and of humanity." Father Frontford had had some difficulty in soothing Mrs. Wilson after the election.
The furniture was stiff and uncompromising, the windows covered only by plain shades, while the bookshelves took an austere air from the dull leather of the bindings of their tall, formal volumes. Father Frontford leaned back in his uncushioned chair and pressed together his thin finger-tips in the gesture which was habitual with him, regarding the young man with keen eyes.
I do not believe that our charities should be conducted on the basis of bargain and sale; nor do I believe that they should be put on a sectarian basis at all." He sat down quietly, with an unimpassioned air which seemed to rebuke the emotional close of the remarks of Father Frontford.
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