A Woman In Spite Of Herself Volume 2 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...rank; of country clergymen, and doctors, and lawyers, and gentle yeomen, who, without thinking scornfully, or even humbly, of their ancestors and worth, are too modest and sensible and proud ever to think of themselves as members of "the county" society of their respective shires. The most important personages of the Sunningwold "set," to which my readers are introduced, are a few old-fashioned people having status in quite a lowly grade of the local aristocracy; a few well-beneficed and fairly-educated rectors, with no pretentions to patrician quality; a few rather prosperous squires, like the Normans, and Pethericks, and Godbolds, who, though very great people in their own parishes and under the shadow of their own trees--especially at times of contested elections--are scarcely known even by name to the squires of like degree living on the other side of the county. The richest man in the whole set is Squire Clissold, who, though his name may be found on the roll of a certain club in Pall-mall, is seldom seen in London unless he is on his way through the capital to a grand Agricultural Show in a distant county, or has come up to the metropolis, shortly before Christmas, to receive yet another silver tankard or cup from the judges of the Smithfield Cattle Club. It was into a "set" of this prosperous and thor oughly gentle kind that the Reverend Felix Kinsman was received promptly and cordially on establishing himself at Sunningwold. And when I remember the ordinary fate of the Anglican curate, --when I recall how many of our' subordinate clergy, gentlemen of high culture and perfect refinement (who have borne themselves honourably at their universities, where collegiate life has trained them to...