Loss and Gain

ay, and they had no lectures; they walked arm-in-arm along Broad Street, evidently very intimate, and Willis found his vo

the country, I th

r hands and hassocks at their knees. Some insufferable person of Capel Hall or St. Mark's, who hardly speaks English, under pretence of asking Mr. Grimes some divinity question, holds forth on original sin, or justification, or assurance, monopolizing the conversation. Then tea-things go, and a portion of Scripture comes instead; and old Grimes expounds; very good it is, doubtless, though he is a layman. H

th," said White: "f

" said Willis; "an ol

n," said White; "tha

for service. "That will be all set right," said Willis

go to the right about. Did you ever

Willis; "that closet is meant for the v

h admits," answered White; "each altar must hav

he high altar; one quite behind, that may be Our Lady's; two, one on

e enough for those sid

ep to them, and they need not be very broad. I think, too, this wall admits

an to measure the floor with his pocket-handkerchief. "What wo

ype of a class; that among such persons were to be found, as we know well, the gentlest spirits and the tenderest hearts; and that nothing short of severe fidelity to historical truth keeps us from adorning these two young persons in particular with that prudence and good sense with which so many such ladies were endowed. These two sisters had open hands, if they had not wise heads; and their object in entering the church (which was not the ch

imagining, Miss Bolton," White said, walking at a respectful distance from her, "we were i

irst reform?" as

d fare hard with your protégée, th

ss Bolton, "because there

, or rather in character, she must mak

Bolton; "are women, then

d lady will reappear, only in anot

l take her p

a cotta. Do you like the short cotta or the l

rget, but I think you told us the Roman wa

, "that there's a great reform going on

ation downwards. Besides, we have got some way in our cope

ed what to do with

at," said Charlotte; "it'll

shall be all real Catholics by

t in time for the Bi

different all things will be!" continued she; "I don't quite like, though, the idea of a cardinal i

White sagely; "things don't go so

ton: "I hear they never walk without two servants behind th

iss Charlotte; "can anything be duller than the President's parti

understand it better in time. No one is his own master; even the Pop

said Charlotte, "fo

ued White, "he is obliged to write them down and con

, to obey the master of ceremonies, a

ked Miss Bolton; "it has always puzzled me whether

nswered White, "ev

Peter's, who comes here to sing glees, confessing, or

have to confe

on't mean converts confess? I th

s a litt

eads of houses be?"

will bear crosses; and when they say Mass,

the Vice-Chancellor will

ut you have left out the Chancellor himself: you seem to h

my difficulty," s

night-Templar

"there's no knowing what he'll come to. A Knight-Templar-ye

es both

hite," said Miss Bolton: "the heads of house

High Street, and they are most satisfactory. Some of the houses there were once university-halls an

t order they ought to jo

They are the judges. But it would be useful to have two convents-one of an active order

en on the verge of jest and earnes

e very strict, I believe, M

for the Mrs. Wardens and Mrs. Princi

, and White polit

e tenderly, "are too deli

ntly she said, "And what

"I have thought of the Cist

ernard wasn't it?-sweet, heavenly man, and s

ectfully, and bowed; the other pair went through a similar ceremony; then it was

ing at the window in her bonnet and shawl, dipping into a chance volume in that unsettled state whi

you been? the bells have stopped a good quarter of an ho

out punctually at half-past nine; we did not stop two m

James's, as the door was open, to say a word or two to poor old Wiggin

is the way when young gentlemen and ladies get t

t us set out directly, we sha

id her mother: "I would not do so for any considerati

at one time? there is something so formal in people coming in all at once, and waiting for each

's the good old-fashioned way. And Mr. Jones and Mr. Pearson used always to sit at least five minutes in the desk to give us some law, and used to look round before beginning; and Mr. Jones

o it is abroad: they come in and go ou

White has been saying all this to you. He's a good young man, very amiable and attentive. I have nothi

aid Louisa; "is it quite impossi

he world; positively I should sink into the earth: s

nnet; "but really it is very sad to make worship so cold and formal a

younger days Catholics were the formal people, and

utiful, this continued concourse, flowing and ebbing, changing yet full, than a

or shame, Charlotte! how can you speak agains

mere puritanical custom, which is no mo

can come," said Louisa; "Church sho

George Ashton-he always left before the sermon; and when taxed with i

be done when a preacher is heretical? what else ca

gion. Those were the times! Everything went on quietly then. We had no disputes or divisions; no differences in f

one looked out of the window, the

first hindered me going, then I have hindered you. But I suspe

d round from

May it be long, dearest girls, before you know it in a similar way; but if affliction comes on you, depend on it, all these

re both

added. "Go and take your things off, and come and