Eton in the Forties
Eton in the Forties
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The ordi- nary defence set up for us is, that the arrange- ment of the seats in chapel is the real hindrance, and that if the boys faced all one way, as at Harrow, we should be a very sympathetic and responsive congregation. I doubt the sound- ness of this plea. There are the ordinary 14 Digitized by Google 2!o ETON IN THE FORTIES congregational opportunities, if the boys will but take off the padlock from their mouths.
We ought, from sheer malice prepense, to have drowned old Gray, the clerk, ...with his horribly distinctive solos all through the services. He had been at his dreary recita- tives ever since 1809, and all those years had not taught him. one spark of reverence. His manners were repulsive. Ten minutes before service began, we saw and heard him expec- torating on his hands, before he pulled the chapel bell-rope, and the unlicensed hawker repeated these performances during service, as if his * Amens * were not far too audible already.
Latterly he became very deaf, and being obliged to make a guess at the part of the Creed orally given out by the officiating Provost, or Fellow, who was at some distance from him, and frequently inaudible, the result was that the parson and clerk generally finished it one before the other.
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The ordi- nary defence set up for us is, that the arrange- ment of the seats in chapel is the real hindrance, and that if the boys faced all one way, as at Harrow, we should be a very sympathetic and responsive congregation. I doubt the sound- ness of this plea. There are the ordinary 14 Digitized by Google 2!o ETON IN THE FORTIES congregational opportunities, if the boys will but take off the padlock from their mouths.
We ought, from sheer malice prepense, to have drowned old Gray, the clerk, ...with his horribly distinctive solos all through the services. He had been at his dreary recita- tives ever since 1809, and all those years had not taught him. one spark of reverence. His manners were repulsive. Ten minutes before service began, we saw and heard him expec- torating on his hands, before he pulled the chapel bell-rope, and the unlicensed hawker repeated these performances during service, as if his * Amens * were not far too audible already.
Latterly he became very deaf, and being obliged to make a guess at the part of the Creed orally given out by the officiating Provost, or Fellow, who was at some distance from him, and frequently inaudible, the result was that the parson and clerk generally finished it one before the other.
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