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Life’s Little Ironies

CHAPTER II
10/18

Besides, we are in for Christianity, and must stick to her whether or no.

I am just now going right through Pusey's _Library of the Fathers_.' 'You'll be a bishop, Joshua, before you have done!' 'Ah!' said the other bitterly, shaking his head.

'Perhaps I might have been--I might have been! But where is my D.D.or LL.D.; and how be a bishop without that kind of appendage?
Archbishop Tillotson was the son of a Sowerby clothier, but he was sent to Clare College.

To hail Oxford or Cambridge as _alma mater_ is not for me--for us! My God! when I think of what we should have been--what fair promise has been blighted by that cursed, worthless--' 'Hush, hush!.

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