The WardenJ. Lane, 1902 - 360 pages Novel based on the St.Cross Hospital inquiry of 1849-53. |
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Abel Handy almshouse anxious arch archdeacon attorney-general bedes bedesmen Billy Gazy bishop Bold's brother Bunce called Chadwick CHAPTER charity church Church of England clergyman clerical comfort Cox and Cummins Crabtree daughter deacon dear declared doctor doctor's lady doubt duty Eleanor Harding enemy eyes face father feeling felt Finney give Grantly hand happy Harding's heard heart hope hospital hundred pounds income John Bold John Hiram's Jupiter knew lady lawyer leave listen live London looked lord Mary Bold matter mind minor canon Miss Harding morning Mount Olympus never opinion papa petition Plumstead Episcopi poor old port wine precentor quiet received Sir Abraham Haphazard sister Skulpit son-in-law sorrow speak stood sure talk tell things thought told Tom Towers Towers twelve old twopence violoncello walked warden wardenship wish word wrong young
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Page 228 - in strategy, admirals in naval tactics, and ' orange-women in the management of their ' barrows ?' ' Yes, my friend—from these 'walls. From here issue the only known ' infallible bulls for the guidance of British 'souls and bodies. This little court is the 'Vatican of England. Here reigns a pope, ' self-nominated, self-consecrated — ay, and
Page 228 - much stranger too,—self-believing !—a pope ' whom, if you cannot obey him, I would ' advise you to disobey as silently as possible; ' a pope hitherto afraid of no Luther ; a pope 'who manages his own inquisition, who ' punishes unbelievers as no most skilful
Page 23 - whole parish of Plumstead Episcopi. 'T is only when he has exchanged that ever-new shovel hat for a tasselled nightcap, and those shining black habiliments for his accustomed robe de nuit, that Dr. Grantly talks, and looks, and thinks like an ordinary man. Many of us
Page 42 - not entitled to the income I receive from the hospital, and•• that others are entitled to it. Whatever some may do, I shall ' never attribute to you base motives: < because you hold an •opinion opposed to my own, and
Page 249 - box! ' Oh, the serenity of Downing Street! ' My brothers, when hope was over on the ' battle field, when no dimmest chance of 'victory remained, the ancient Roman could ' hide his face within his toga, and die
Page 54 - his own .way, it .is not to be supposed that .Hiram's bedesmen., themselves were altogether passive .spectators. Finney,,. the attorney,; had been among them, .asking sly questions, and raising immoderate hopes, creating a party hostile to the
Page 228 - radically ; put you beyond the pale of ' men's charity; make you odious to your ' dearest friends, and turn you into a monster
Page 26 - We believe, as a general rule, that either a bishop or his archdeacons have sinecures: where a bishop works, archdeacons have but little to do, and vice versa. In the diocese of Barchester the Archdeacon
Page 96 - as to his friendship, if the thing itself be right, private motives should never be allowed., to interfere. Because I esteem Mr. Harding, is that a reason that I should neglect a duty which I owe to these old men ? or should I give up a work which my conscience tells me is a good one, because I regret the loss of his society