41/49 He announced to him that he was about to read for Orders, and that at the same time he relinquished all claim on the living of Murewell. 'Do what you like with it when it falls vacant,' he wrote, 'without reference to me. My views are strong that before a clergyman in health and strength, and in no immediate want of money, allows himself the luxury of a country parish, he is bound, for some years at any rate, to meet the challenge of evil and poverty where the fight is hardest-among our English town population.' Sir Mowbray Elsmere replied curtly in a day or two, to the effect that Robert's letter seemed to him superfluous. Mowbray, had nothing to do with his cousin's views. |