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As they came to the churchyard, the grave-digger was just busy at a grave, and it was quiet about him; no sheep, no goat came and desecrated man's last resting-place; for in this village the churchyard was no pasture for unclerical animals. Suddenly an irresistible melancholy came over Freneli. The venerable mound, the digging of the new grave, woke gloomly thoughts.
Clement Vyell swung round upon him eagerly, but paused with a just perceptible start at sight of his unclerical garb. "Let me introduce you, Clem. This is Mr. Flood." Parson Jack bowed, and let his eyes travel around the church, which he had often enough pitied, but of which he now for the first time felt ashamed. "We're in a sad mess, I'm afraid," he muttered.
They agree Miss Bentley and he that they cannot get married as they got engaged, in spite of her mother it would be unclerical if it wouldn't be unfilial and they simply have to bide their time." My wife asked abruptly, "How many chambers are there in the Conwell place?" I said, and then she asked, "Is there a windmill or a force-pump?"
So stiffnecked a man, so obstinate, so unclerical, so determined to make much of little! The Bishop had felt himself bound to warn a clergyman that, for the sake of the Church, he could not do altogether as other men might. No doubt certain ladies had got around him, especially Lady Margaret Momson, filling his ears with the horrors of the Doctor's proceedings.
And Mauger, Archbishop of Rouen, excommunicated the Duke and his bride, and the ban fell idle; for Lanfranc sent from Rome the Pope's dispensation and blessing , conditionally only that bride and bridegroom founded each a church. And Mauger was summoned before the synod, and accused of unclerical crimes; and they deposed him from his state, and took from him abbacies and sees.
He laughed a little. "Poor Herbs! when will people understand that it is the spirit of the thing, the pursuit, not the individual chance participation in any particular amusement, that is unclerical, as they are pleased to call it?" "What do you think of Herbert?" "A boy, and a very nice boy; but if he doesn't get his healthful play somehow, he will burst out like a closed boiler some day."
The desire passed, partly because it was unclerical, partly because he had no knife, and partly because he soon blurred over what had happened. To him all criticism was "rudeness": he never heeded it, for he never needed it: he was never wrong.
Archdeacon Froude belonged to a type of clergyman now almost extinct in the Church of England, though with strong idiosyncrasies of his own. Orthodox without being spiritual, he was a landowner as well as a parson, a high and dry Churchman, an active magistrate, a zealous Tory, with a solid and unclerical income of two or three thousand a year.
His face began to clear; he answered her lightly on his side. "Prepare yourself to meet the most unclerical of clergymen," he said. "Julian is a lost sheep among the parsons, and a thorn in the side of his bishop. Preaches, if they ask him, in Dissenters' chapels. Declines to set up any pretensions to priestly authority and priestly power. Goes about doing good on a plan of his own.
A chorister was just coming out. "Walter!" she called. The lad came down to the curb. "Will you please take this to Mr. Meredith? He is probably in the Sunday-school now." "Sure. Will you wait for an answer, Miss King?". "No, thank you, Walter." She rode home and waited anxiously for the personal answer to her note, which came with most unclerical alacrity.
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