![]() On Dr Gibson: …thin enough to be called “a very genteel figure,” in those days, before muscular Christianity had come into vogue speaking with a slight Scotch accent and, as one good lady observed, “so very trite in his conversation,” by which she meant sarcastic. Still, in every condition of life, there are heavy cares and responsibilities. She…, had set up a school not after the manner of schools nowadays, where far better intellectual teaching is given to the boys and girls of labourers and work-people than often falls to the lot of their betters in worldly estate. Lady Cumnor: Once a year she was condescending. ![]() ![]() They expected to be submitted to, and obeyed the simple worship of the townspeople was accepted by the earl and countess as a right. The Cumnors: …the earl” and “the countess,” as they were always called by the inhabitants of the town where a very pretty amount of feudal feeling still lingered, and showed itself in a number of simple ways, droll enough to look back upon, but serious matters…at the time. ![]()
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