The Seven Sons of Mammon : a Story 1

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They began to sneer at his bounty as ostentation, to stigmatise his shy and reserved demeanour as pride. The surest way of making a shy man proud is to tell him of his haughtiness.
By somewhat of the feeling, si vult decipi, deci- piatur, one feels inclined, in sheer retaliation, to become distant and austere. The gulf between the rector and his flock widened every day ; and it wanted but one element of discord to make it impassable. The men and, worse than all, the women of Swordsley began to
...take exception to the Reverend Ernest Goldthorpe's doctrine. The unlucky young man had a taste for mediaeval art, o2 196 THE SEVEN SONS OF MAMMON.
and lie held notions somewhat advanced of the kind advocated in certain famous Tracts for cer- tain troubled Times. If he was not a Puseyite, at least his congregation declared he was one ; and he did a good deal towards encouraging the belief.
At his own expense he had done much towards restoring the fine old early English church of St.
Marjr-la-Douce, at Swordsley; but the clearing away of the hideous wainscoating flaming with the golden names of departed churchwardens, and the rubbing off the smearing of whitewash which concealed some fine old fresco paintings, — both parts of the process by which the church had been " beautified " during the Georgian era, — involved him in unseemly broils with his own church- warden, and caused him to be denounced by the " Leave-us-alone-Club " as a pervert, an Escobar, an Ignatius Loyola, who was moved by the horrid intention of once more inflicting Popery, brass money, and wooden shoes on this free and Protes- tant land.


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