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She was re-baptized, but only by way of precaution. It was not necessary, for our baptism, you know, is recognised by Rome." "And that was all!" "All, with a first communion and confession. It is all consummated now; as you say, 'It is too wonderful. A first confession, and to Nigel Penruddock, who says life is flat and insipid!" "I shall write to her: I must write to her.
At the end of the autumn, his Holiness the Pope had made half a dozen new cardinals, and to the surprise of the world, and the murmurs of the Italians, there appeared among them the name of an Englishman, Nigel Penruddock, archbishop in partibus. Shortly after this, a papal bull, "given at St. Peter's, Rome, under the seal of the fisherman," was issued, establishing a Romish hierarchy in England.
"Oh! we do pretty well," said Mr. Penruddock. "But how can a family live on ten or twelve shillings a week?" murmured Mrs. Neuchatel. "There it is," said Mr. Penruddock. "A family has more than that. With a family the income proportionately increases." Mrs. Neuchatel sighed. "I must say," she said, "I cannot help feeling there is something wrong in our present arrangements.
There is a colored print of George the Third, a full length which really brings the old king to life again, so striking is the resemblance, and quantities of theatrical people, Munden and Elliston and the Kembles. There are two portraits of "glorious John" in Penruddock. Then the curious old prints of old houses.
"And what do you think of all this?" asked Lord Montfort of Nigel Penruddock, who, in a cassock that swept the ground, had been stalking about the glittering salons like a prophet who had been ordained in Mayfair, but who had now seated himself by his host. "I am thinking of what is beneath all this," replied Nigel. "A great revivication.
At length the Sheriff, Hungerford Penruddock, Esq. who looked ready to faint with shame at what he was about to do, dissolved the meeting, and ordered the Riot Act to be read, which, I believe, little whiffling Mr. Salmon made a sort of dumb-show or pretence to do, and then immediately gave orders to have me taken into custody.
In this great centre of civilisation, and wealth, and power, there was need of the spirit of a St. Ursula. No one seemed more pleased by the return of Archbishop Penruddock than Lord Montfort.
Glyn Williams meanwhile had bought Bodoran Hall near Port Sennen, and would have leisure to make all the many structural alterations which he wished before he was obliged to leave The Warren. Through Bevis's foster-mother, Mrs. Penruddock of Grimbal's Farm, where Dr.
Rooks were beginning to build, green foliage showed on the elder trees, and the elms were flowering. "We shall all be pixie-led if we gather the white stitchwort!" said Mavis. "They're the pixies' flowers, so Mrs. Penruddock told me! It's a very old Devonshire superstition." "Is that so? I never heard it before," said Miss Mitchell.
Zenobia used sometimes to send him a card; but these condescending recognitions of late had ceased, particularly as the great dame heard he was "always at that Lady Beaumaris's." One of the social incidents of his circle, not the least interesting to him, was the close attendance of Adriana and her mother on the ministrations of Nigel Penruddock.
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