Beilby & Burton, and took the first opportunity of telling his father that such was the case.
After breakfast he followed his father into his study, and there, sitting in two easy chairs opposite to each other, they lit each a cigar.

Such was the reverend gentleman's custom in the afternoon, and such also in the morning.

I do not know whether the smoking of four or five cigars daily by the parson of a parish may now-a-day be considered as a vice in him, but if so, it was the only vice with which Mr.
Clavering could be charged.

He was a kind, soft-hearted, gracious man, tender to his wife, whom he ever regarded as the angel of his house, indulgent to his daughters, whom he idolized, ever patient with his parishioners, and awake--though not widely awake--to the responsibilities of his calling.

The world had been too comfortable for him, and also too narrow; so that he had sunk into idleness.