Inhaltsangabe
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. 1922. Excerpt: ... HUGH MONFERT I Dr. Knight will save me from Minor Orders, thought Hugh Monfert as he stood shaving before a small mirror in a-white-washed, cell-like room, a young man of twoand-twenty, tall, thick-set, round-headed, and shortnecked, whose curved nose hung flag-like over a long, loose mouth when he tightened his upper lip and drew the razor across it. I must have a priest's advice and none can advise me better than Dr. Knight. How odd that I didn't think of him last night. He dipped his shaving brush into the jug of hot water and was about to start a second shaving, but before lathering again he stopped so that he might better think out the letter he was minded to send, anon laying the razor down to consider what answer he would give to his mother if she were to ask him why he had thought of inviting the President to Wotton Hall, for he had never expressed a wish to do so before and it was three years since he had left Stanislaus College. Of course he had a right to invite whom he pleased to his own house, but his plans would come to naught if his mother suspected that the priest was asked to Wotton Hall to mediate. But why should she refuse Dr. Knight's mediation if I am willing to accept it? We cannot go on wrangling for ever about an heir. An heir is the bee in her bonnet, he growled. Every woman who comes here is considered by her as a possible wife and mother, and it's getting upon my nerves; it's driving me out of my wits. And once more forgetful of his shaving he stood like a stock, his face a blank, asking himself why his mother could not wait, allowing things to take their course. He was not averse from marriage but he would like to be allowed to marry when and whom he pleased, for his pleasure and not for the sake of an heir. Surely this is reas...
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