Lanterna Rally

Author: Mrs. Gore

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781331384618

Excerpt from The Dean's Daughter, Vol. 1 of 3: Or, the Days We Live In A friend, or sister more beloved; My playmate when we both were clothed alike. Coleridge. Of the nine thousand seven hundred and thirteen inhabitants of the cathedral town of R -, none perhaps was more popular than the Dean. The qualities which had won this universal affection were chiefly of a negative order. Early trouble and a natural deficiency of animal spirits, had endowed him with a serene gravity, highly becoming his vocation; and when, on rare occasions, he emerged from his stall to the pulpit, the spinster coteries of R -, subdued by the charm of his high bred deportment and attenuated features, regarded his grey head as that of a saint. The indolence which estranged him from their whist-tables, and the dyspepsia which enforced abstemiousness and sobriety, passed, somewhat gratuitously, at R - for Christian virtues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.