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The preacher stopped. His cool, penetrating voice sounded strangely unclerical as he said: "There are some fellows here to-day to have fun with me. If they don't keep quiet, they'll have more fun than they can hold." He pulled off his coat and laid it on the table before him, and, amid a wondering silence, took off his cuffs and collar, saying:
Such recreations are now unclerical in the highest degree, or if not in the highest, they are only one degree less so than hunting. The theatre was especially a respectable clerical resource, and we may still occasionally see heads of colleges in the stalls, or perhaps a dean, or some rector, unambitious of further promotion.
He wore a shabby black frock-coat, a sort of semi-clerical tie worn at a very unclerical angle, and looked, generally speaking, about as unlike a house-agent as anything could look, short of something like a sandwich man or a Scotch Highlander. We stood inside the room for fully forty seconds, and the odd old gentleman did not look at us.
This unclerical native prejudice against working for white men is so universal, and has been so consistently maintained for three hundred years, as to present a queer contradiction to those divine marks which set him apart for that condition.
The solitary muezzin, who cried the mughreb at the close of the fast, and lighted the lamps on his minaret, went through with his work in most unclerical haste, now that there was no one to notice him. We sent Achmet, the katurgee, to the mountain camp of the villagers, to procure a supply of fowls and barley.
The preacher stopped. His cool, penetrating voice sounded strangely unclerical as he said: "There are some fellows here to-day to have fun with me. If they don't keep quiet, they'll have more fun than they can hold." At this point a green crab-apple bounded up the aisle. "I'm not to be bulldozed."
But Breckon forbore for two reasons: one, that he had already appeared before the judge with the confession of having possibly made an unclerical joke to his younger daughter; the other, that the judge might not consider levity towards the elder so venial; and though Breckon wished to be both punished and pardoned, in the final analysis, perhaps, he most wished to be pardoned.
Jeffries, a pleasant little man, with a round and shining face and a most unclerical eyeglass, came up to consult the Squire upon some matter of parish business, and was shown into the dining-room. Ida took advantage of his appearance to effect a retreat to her own room, and there for the present we may leave her to her meditations. No more business was discussed by the Squire that afternoon.
He looked the good priest curiously and critically over from head to foot, remembering, but not mentioning, the most unclerical punch in the side received from that energetic right arm now lying so flabbily across the old man's lap. When the talk ended and Father Beret humbly took his leave, Hamilton turned to Farnsworth and said: "What do you think of this affair?
Why then intrude such unrequired counsel? Read the next five pages, and take your answer. Now, as to the unclerical authorship of this, it is wise that it be done out of métier.
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