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Avory. He is an example to us all. Canon Wrottesley had always been devoted to his wife. Her quiet dress and her mantle had ever seemed to him the essence of good womanhood, and he respected her for her considerable fortune as well as for her unimpeachable orthodoxy. His highest term of praise of her was to speak of her as the helpmeet for him.
'Tyndall, he said at length, 'I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if I accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year. I urged him no more, and Lord Wrottesley had a most worthy successor in Sir Benjamin Brodie.
A silver bowl in the middle of the table suggested punch; Canon Wrottesley must brew a wassail bowl. A footman was sent for this thing and that, for lemons and boiling water the water must boil, remember? And too much sugar would spoil the whole thing.
Then I saw Miss Franks sweeping a deep curtsey to Lord Cathcart as he bowed. There were the fair Shippen women, the Chews, the provost's blonde daughter with Sir John Wrottesley, Mrs. Ferguson, my aunt's "Tory cat," in gay chat with Sir Charles Calder, Galloways, Allens a pretty show of loyal dames, with save the officers-few young men I knew.
Miss Abingdon had antiquated notions of a chaperon's duties. 'I suppose there would be no objection to the match if they do care for each other, said Mrs. Wrottesley, in a manner that was often called brusque and had served to make her unpopular. 'Jane is rich 'Jane has money, corrected Miss Abingdon, who saw a well-defined difference between the two statements.
Among these Lord Castlereagh professed himself a friend to the abolition of the trade, but he differed as to the mode. Sir J. Wrottesley approved of the principle of the bill, but would oppose it in some of its details. Mr. Windham allowed the justice, but differed as to the expediency, of the measure. Mr. Deverell professed himself to have been a friend to it; but he had then changed his mind.
Wrottesley was one directed to her husband in dear Miss Abingdon's handwriting. The canon opened it unheedingly. Miss Abingdon often sent him little notes, but never, perhaps, had she written one which spoke more genuinely out of a full heart than did this. She had written in the middle of the night, although she felt how disorderly and almost indecorous such a proceeding was.
Her unusual behaviour accounts for the fact that her letter arrived by the second post at Hulworth; Canon Wrottesley was so much upset at the time that he read half-way through it before he quite realized what it was about. 'MY DEAR CANON, it ran 'you must allow me to say what I think of your splendid conduct in regard to poor little Mrs. Avory.
Wrottesley, 'we thought we were in love. 'A Miss Sherard stayed here last summer, said Miss Abingdon, 'a friend of Jane's, and she smoked cigarettes in her bedroom. I know that, for I saw the ashes in her pin-tray.
Canon Wrottesley belonged to the London Library and liked to converse on books, even when he had read only a portion of the volumes which he discussed. He often fingered them with true scholarly affection as they lay on his library table, and he discussed erudite points of learning with a light touch which his hearers, in a parish not renowned for its culture, found truly impressive.
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