This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...Sheringham, Miss Lovell had not been the companion of a fugitive wife on a runaway expedition." "Oh, for shame, MacGopus," said Lord Weybridge; "how can you attach any importance to that event? Do you imagine that a man like Mr. Lovell, a clergyman of the Establishment, exemplary in every point of his character, would ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...Sheringham, Miss Lovell had not been the companion of a fugitive wife on a runaway expedition." "Oh, for shame, MacGopus," said Lord Weybridge; "how can you attach any importance to that event? Do you imagine that a man like Mr. Lovell, a clergyman of the Establishment, exemplary in every point of his character, would have permitted his child to be the partner of such an expedition, unless he had satisfied himself, beyond the chance of deception, of the purity and propriety of Mrs. Harbottle's character?" "I don't know," said MacGopus: "the clergy of your church are no better than they should be." "And who amongst us is?" said Lord Weybridge: "I am vexed to hear a man of sense and judgment, like yourself, fall into a vulgar cry against our clergy. Take them collectively, or individually, and I will stake my existence, that, with fewer exceptions than are to be fouhd proportionably in any other profession, such a body of men of piety, learning, charity, and benevolence is not to be found on the face of the globe as the clergy of the Church of England." "George," said the Doctor, chuckling with delight; "what d' ye think of Dr. Doddipole, of the Grampus, who Went to prayers with--"Think!" interrupted Lord Weybridge--whose mother, by the way, invariably started back in her chair, and stared whenever MacGopus called his lordship George--"I think he was a disgrace to his cloth; but you are not to judge the many by the scoundrel few--you are not to stigmatise four or five thousand gentlemen because of their profession there are four or five vagabonds; nothing in the whole world is more detestable and degraded than a sensual, dissipated parson." "One thing, if ...
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