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He lectured me straightly enough, but there is always a disposition to suspect an eccentric." "He was probably the honestest man in the room," answered Master Blanchminster with some positiveness.
"I am the more glad to hear it," said the Bishop, "because meeting a man of such patent capacity brought so low--" "I assure you, he doesn't even drink--or not to excess," the Master assured him.
They were passing under the archway of the Porter's Lodge.
"But hallo!" said the Bishop, as they emerged upon the great quadrangle, "what in the world is going on yonder ?" Again, as the Master had viewed it many hundreds of times, the sunset shed its gold across the well-kept turf between long shadows cast by the chimneys of the Brethren's lodgings.

As usual, in the deep shadow of the western front were gathered groups of inmates for the evening chat.

But the groups had drawn together into one, and were watching a child who, solitary upon the grass-plot, paced through a measure before them 'high and disposedly.' "Brayvo!" shrilled the voice of Mrs.Royle, champion among viragoes.
"Now, at the turn you come forward and catch your skirts back before you curtchey!" "But what on earth does it all mean ?" asked the Bishop, staring across from the archway.
"It's--it's Bonaday's child--he's one of our Brethren: as I suppose, rehearsing her part for the Pageant." Corona's audience had no eyes but for the performance.

As she advanced to the edge of the grass-plot and dropped a final curtsey to them, their hands beat together.