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Updated: May 29, 2025
He sat balancing his long person over the arm of a chair listening to the recital of some of the High Churchman's parish troubles with a slight half-embarrassed smile. The Vicar of Mottringham was always in trouble.
Robert was leading, his eye now on the apostolic-looking priest, now on his wife. Mr. Newcome resisted, but Robert had his way. Then it came out that behind these battles of kites and crows at Mottringham, there lay an heroic period, when the pale ascetic had wrestled ten years with London poverty, leaving health and youth and nerves behind him in the mêlée.
If Newcome would not come to him, he must go to Mottringham. He planned an expedition, but something happened to prevent it.
Anselm's undergraduate, and he sat pouring himself out with as much freedom as if all his companions had been as ready as he was to die for an alb, or to spend half their days in piously circumventing a bishop. But presently the conversation had slid, no one knew how, from Mottringham and its intrigues to London and its teeming East.
If Newcome would not come to him, he must go to Mottringham. He planned an expedition, but something happened to prevent it.
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