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These windows are very acutely arched, and their tracery is of the geometrical Decorated style. They contain five lights, each light terminating in a trefoiled arch. The central light has further a very acute arch above it, also filled with a trefoil. The two outer lights on each side are joined together by an arch above them, in which is a cinquefoiled circle.
"I do not find myself fit for new duties," urged Mr. Harding. "New duties! What duties?" said the archdeacon with unintended sarcasm. "Oh, Papa," said Mrs. Grantly, "nothing can be easier than what a dean has to do. Surely you are more active than Dr. Trefoil." "He won't have half as much to do as he has at present," said Dr. Grantly.
'Oh ah hasn't he? Poor man! I'm sure I'm very sorry. I suppose Sir Omicron has not arrived yet? 'No; not till the 9.15pm train. 'I wonder they didn't have a special. They say Dr Trefoil is very rich. 'Very rich, I believe, said Mr Slope. 'But the truth is, all the doctors in London can do no good; no other good than to show that every possible care has been taken.
She would have said hard things to me, though not perhaps harder than I have deserved. I suppose I may still see him to-morrow." "Oh yes; he expects it" "I shall not tell him now. I could not tell him if I thought he were dying. If he gets better you must tell him all." "I don't think I could do that, Miss Trefoil." "Pray do; pray do. I call upon you to tell him everything."
He stood for a while at the window in the drawing-room before he went across the hall, and even took up a pair of field-glasses to scrutinise the lady; and when they were all present he asked whether that was not Miss Trefoil whom he had seen down by the new fence.
The idea of the pointed arch, rose window, trefoil, quatrefoil, animal grotesques, and geometric designs, as well as the beautiful linen-fold design, were all adapted for use as carving in the panels of the furniture of the day, which consisted of chests that served as seats, buffets, armoires, screens, trestle tables, as well as the choir stalls of churches.
Sherry would do just as well. And then Mr. Slope descended with the learned Miss Trefoil on his arm. Could she tell him, he asked, whether the ferns of Barsetshire were equal to those of Cumberland? His strongest worldly passion was for ferns and before she could answer him he left her wedged between the door and the sideboard. It was fifty minutes before she escaped, and even then unfed.
You cannot imagine what tufted elegance, what richness of open-work tracery this encroachment of the ivy throws upon the rather gaunt and sharp gable-end of the building, which on this front has for ornament but four narrow-pointed windows, surmounted by three trefoil quadrilobes.
There had been much said about all this at Mistletoe from which she knew that he was in London preparing himself among the gentlemen at the Treasury. Then she herself would write to the Duke. She thought that she could concoct a letter that would move even his heart. She would tell him that she was a daughter of the house of Trefoil, and "all that kind of thing."
Gore's she received from him a letter, which, with the correspondence to which it immediately led, shall be given in this chapter. Letter No. Rufford, Sunday. My Dear Miss Trefoil, We have had a sad house since you left us. Poor Caneback got better and then worse and then better, and at last died yesterday afternoon. And now; there is to be the funeral!
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