Perhaps you will furnish me, or rather my lawyers, with the necessary particulars, and I will see that the matter is put through.
Now, to come to more important business, as to this Board of which I am chairman," &c.
The end of it was that Sir Samuel, flattered by such deference, became a member of the Board and Sir Samuel's nephew became rector of Monk's Acre.
Such appointments, like marriages, are made in Heaven--at least that seems to be the doctrine of the English Church, which is content to act thereon.

In this particular instance the results were quite good.

The Rev.Mr.Knight, the nephew of the opulent Sir Samuel, proved to be an excellent and hard-working clergyman.

He was low-church, and narrow almost to the point of Calvinism, but intensely earnest and conscientious; one who looked upon the world as a place of sin and woe through which we must labour and pass on, a difficult path beset with rocks and thorns, leading to the unmeasured plains of Heaven.

Also he was an educated man who had taken high degrees at college, and really learned in his way.