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Alison, the reserved, had held her tongue on his antecedents; but Er that his father had been a minor canon, who

had eked out his means with a combination of chaplaincies and parts

of curacies, and by teaching at the school where his son was educated

Indignant at the hack estimation in which his father had been held, the

son, far nity and duty of his office,

was resolved to be respected; but bred up in second rate society,

had neither weight, talent, nor ressive

self-assertion, and he was at this ti to the

Curtises

Cathedral music had been too natural to him for the endurance of an

unchoral service, and the prime labour of his life was to work up his

choir; but he was un his career with such ers as to impel them into the arms of dissent, he could only supply

the loss from the school by his own voice, of which he was not chary,

though using it with better will than taste The staple of his choir

were Rachel's scholars Her turn had always been for boys, and her

class on Sundaybeen

in operation before the reign of Mr Touchett Then two lads, whose

paternal fiddles had seceded to the Plyes by the curate, and Rachel ith difficulty