Excerpt from Lindi Chase: A Novel The base creatures, who were guilty of such enormities, were too few and too oh scure to cause any trouble or scandal in the dignified church-loving Silverton society. If a bishop did endow a favorite son or son-ln law with an accumulation of somewhat ia compatible preferments, if a reverend canon did absent himself for a year or two together from Silverton, or hold preferment with his canonry not strictly tenable with it, leave some of the little churches in the city un served some Sunday ...
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Excerpt from Lindi Chase: A Novel The base creatures, who were guilty of such enormities, were too few and too oh scure to cause any trouble or scandal in the dignified church-loving Silverton society. If a bishop did endow a favorite son or son-ln law with an accumulation of somewhat ia compatible preferments, if a reverend canon did absent himself for a year or two together from Silverton, or hold preferment with his canonry not strictly tenable with it, leave some of the little churches in the city un served some Sunday evening, because he was engaged to a dinner-party in the country, or indulge in a habit of playing whist deep into Sunday morning; or if a Minor Canon were found hearing the chimes at midnight else where than in his study or his bed, or did chance to get into trouble about sporting without a license, or did stroll into his coun try church to take some odds or ends of sur plice duty in his shooting gaiters, while he left his dog and gun in the vestry, - why, there Was no chiel amang them to take invidi ous note of these things, much less to dream of printing them In short, the time ofwhich I have been Speaking, and am about to speak, was that good old time, which nous autres who are sur la retour remember so well and which was so pleasant that it is quite sad to think that it should have been found out to be so naughty! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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