Flavel in gown and bands which hung over the fireplace,
straightened her gown upon her knees, and pushed it forward over her
feet so as to cover them altogether--a mute protest against the
impropriety of the scene she had partly described. Mr. Broad
inwardly would have liked her to go on; but he always wore his white
neckerchief, except when he was in bed, and he was still the Reverend
John Broad, although nobody but his wife was with him. He therefore
refrained, but after a while slowly observed:
"Thomas has not made much progress in systematic theology."
"They do not require much on admission, do they? He knows the
outlines, and I am sure the committee will recollect my father and be
glad to get Thomas. I have heard that the social position of the
candidates is not what it used to be, and that they wish to obtain
some of a superior stamp, who ultimately may be found adapted to
metropolitan churches."
"One of the questions last year, my dear, was upon the office of the
Comforter, and you remember Josiah Collins was remanded. I hardly
think Thomas is sufficiently instructed on that subject at present;
and there are others. On the whole, it is preferable that he should
not go till September twelvemonths.
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