He always observed
that it was not classic, and consequently not easy to render. He
pointed out, too, as a further curiosity, which somewhat increased
the difficulty to any ordinary person, that V was used for U, and I
for J. He never, as might be expected, omitted to enlarge upon the
omission of any reference to the Atoning Blood and the Life to Come,
and remarked how the poor man's sufferings would have been entirely
"assuaged"--a favourite word with Mr. Broad--if he had believed in
those "remedies." At the same time Mr. Broad dwelt upon the
"associations" of the avenue, which, he thought, added much to its
natural "attractiveness." Cowfold thought so too, and welcomed the
words as exactly expressing what it felt. John Broad and Cowfold
were right, and more right, perhaps, than they knew. The draper's
young man, who walked through the park with his arm round his young
woman's waist, looked up at the obelisk, repeated its story, and
became more serious. Thus it came to pass that the old lord's love
lived again somewhat in the apprentice, and that which to the
apprentice seemed most particularly himself was a little bit of the
self of the Queen Anne's earl long since asleep in the vault under
Cowfold Church.
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