He gave it to my old tutor.
Mr.Clerke's appointment had the rare merit of pleasing everybody.
After he had been settled with us for some weeks, my father said, "Mr.Clerke is good enough to be grateful to me for presenting him to the living, but I do not know how to be grateful enough to him for accepting it.

I really cannot think how I should have endured to see Andrewes' place filled by some new broom sweeping away every trace of our dear friend and his ways.

Clerke's good taste in the matter is most delicate, most admirable, and very pleasant to my feelings." The truth is there was not a truer mourner for the old Rector than the new one.

"I so little thought I should never see him again," he cried to me.

"I have often felt I did not half avail myself of the privilege of knowing such a man, when I was here.