The Hero
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: Hutchinson Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Psychological Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. ...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: Hutchinson Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Psychological Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IV WHEN James went home he found that the Vicar of Little Primpton and his wife had already arrived. They were both of them little, dried-up persons, with an earnest manner and no sense of humour, quite excellent in a rather unpleasant way; they resembled one another like peas, but none knew whether the likeness had grown from the propinquity of twenty years, or had been the original attraction. Deeply impressed with their sacred calling -- for Mrs. Jackson would never have acknowledged that the Vicar's wife held a position inferior to the Vicar's -- they argued that the whole world was God's, and they God's particular ministrants; so that it was their plain duty to concern themselves with the business of their fellows -- and it must be confessed that they never shrank from this duty. They were neither well- educated, nor experienced, nor tactful; but blissfully ignorant of these defects, they shepherded their flock with little moral barks, and gave them, rather selfconsciously, a good example in the difficult way to eternal life. They were eminently worthy people, who thought light-heartedness somewhat indecent. They did endless good in the most disagreeable manner possible ; and in their fervour not only bore unnecessary crosses themselves, but saddled them on to everyone else, as the only certain passport to the Golden City. The Reverend Archibald Jackson had been appointed to the living of Little Primpton ...
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