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Updated: June 10, 2025
The church wants restoration from beginning to end, and by a first-class man. It deserves no less, for it's interesting throughout; in some points unique." "That would cost money now?" suggested Parson Jack, pitching his voice to the true Langona sing-song. "Two thousand pounds would go a long way."
But twenty-five years had passed, and at Langona Parson Flood remained. It had cost him twenty of these to wipe off his Oxford debts, with interest; but he had managed to retain the small remnant of his capital, and this with his benefice yielded an income better than a day labourer's. That he was still a bachelor goes without saying.
You can buy yourself a decent little living, or retire and set up comfortably as a bachelor on two hundred and fifty pounds a year, with a cob, and a gig as you grow older." Parson Jack shook his head. "I've been paying debts all my life, with the help of Langona," said he, puffing slowly. "And now I see that I owe the place repayment.
"But the wreck!" exclaimed the Chief Officer. "It's out of reason!" "Hi! What was that?" "Oh, my good Lord," groaned one of the volunteers, "it's the crake, master! It's Langona crake calling the drowned!" "Hush, you fool! Listen I thought as much! Light a flare. Mr. Saul he's out there calling!" The first match spluttered and went out.
"Blessed be the name of the Lord!" Six weeks later the Rev. Clement Vyell was inducted into the living of Langona, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. John Flood. His first sermon announced that the church was to be restored without delay; that plans were even now being prepared by an eminent architect, and that, as soon as they arrived and were approved, tenders would be invited. Mr.
"Still, I don't quite understand " "He has left me five thousand pounds." "Ah? A very tidy sum my dear Flood, I congratulate you; with all my heart I do. You have the prospect now of many happy days." He shook his friend's hand warmly. "But excuse me what has this to do with reading ecclesiastical history, of Langona or any other place?"
But Langona Church stands out more boldly, on a high grassy meadow thrust forward like a bastion over the stream's right flank.
"Well," Parson Jack answered shyly, sitting down and filling his pipe, "I thought of restoring the church." "My dear fellow, don't be a fool if I may speak profanely. Five thousand pounds is a tidy sum, no doubt, in Langona especially. But you'll be leaving Langona.
Langona has been differently interpreted as the "Meadow Church" and the "Church on the Downs," either of which names would be appropriate. But we reach something more definite when we come to St. Carantoc himself, the Irish Cairnech or Crannach. He is a genuine personality of British saint-lore, the only doubt being whether he was an Irishman, a Welshman, or a Cornishman.
But the rider, now standing high for a moment against the sky-line, went plodding on. For a while horse and man disappeared over the rise; but Taffy guessed that on hitting the cross-path beyond it they would strike away to the left and descend toward Langona Creek; and he began to slant his course to the left in anticipation.
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