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was the vigil of All Saints,
y arches, stood the High Altar, blazing with lights. The ch
ong silver trumpets, loved of old Purcell, shoute
. He stood up in his stall with the rest, a man whose face still showed a tr
elves that he had had a dear friend once whom he had loved, and for whom he still m
ad written in his early days, a mystic romance
n old priest whose days were nearly done, read the lesson, Scott leant back with crossed hands, thinking of old times, of his youth. It seemed to him on this great night of the Church that other and
had struck him, old scenes and scraps of verse. The smell of the incense brought back Cowley or the Sunday evening services at St. Barnabas. He rejoiced in his heart at the stateliness and circumstance of worsh
lness and worship. He bent his head low in his hands, and prayed humbly for the Church's welfare, and then, with an upliftin
aces. He mounted to the high pulpit in the sweep of
ideal, to which they might all attain, telling them of the sweetness that comes with goodness. He thought of the
nk, that round them to-night were the dear ones who had died, that
matic, and effective. Sister Eliza wiped her eyes and thought of the novel, and only poor o
ses, Father Scott walking last in flowered cope. They sang, "For all the sa
the shuffling feet of the congregation as they left the building. Sister Eliza, as she went out into the cu
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d who have you got
ordaunt Sturtevant, the new
ous said that he made her 'feel quite funny when he looked at her.'
rie Burness is coming-such a dear! know
et her," said the duc
name like that. Parson's daughter, Kensington peop
aid the
in Hackney-somethin' of that sort. Eliza Facinorious and the Baron, Lady Darwin Swift, Mr. Justice Col
d the duc
d to get her. She really was a duchess, which, if a woman has no brains, money, or comeliness
lk. The most eminent member of the criminal bar, he would have been Queen's
t of a great name; the rich uncleanness of his life almost rivalling his stories, and both being given undue prominence by his friends on the weekly press. The
ering, had grown too stout for flirtation, and feeling the want of a mètier, had turned her thoughts to scandal, and achieved a great success.
ce Coll came in arm in arm, and s
eyes, shaded by bushy brows, made the duchess want t
ken down by Mr. Sanderson, the education person from Hackne
e pursuit of the unattainable by the unbearable, h
s whole mind, no large part of him, b
Mrs. Burness, and they discussed their host and hostess, both of them
an excellent college. We went up for the 'Torgids,' I think they call them-boatin' races, you know-and we had lunch in Bernard's roo
in the corner looking out into
you kno
ed to know a man who had th
Bernard! Perhaps his ghost ha
ommon name-Ya
rness g
I was a girl,"
le who were coming after the dinner were being announced. He heard Sir Lio
overing before you
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th a little smile,
a time, and their f
he?" Sturtevant forced
, don't you know, but I alway
reading for the Bar I did him a service, f
quite that so
, "he was a man possessed of
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