The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-14
S0UTHBAY SOCIETY.
A Romance Of the Prince Of Wales
tI. Garden Party. t{f
From London Society.l
CHAPTER iii.

In the sixties, then, there lived in the
hattest, breeziest, and healthiest part of
The healthy county Of Norfolk, a certain
clergyman named Yarrell. 'a'.,'1'
He was Vicar of Bersay, remarkably
poor living, and, except in the matter Of
children, he could not be considered rich
ly endowed. as. .l'.
Well born, we'll bred, well educated
It might have been thought that he had
many chances in his favor, and that it
was not impossible he might vet achieve
great things. but the only member of
his house who had ever held out help
Ing hand was dead; his breeding was of
that prepossessing but not very serviceable
description, which shrinks from contact
with those VIII" might possibly prove of
benefit; his education he used in man.
ner only calculated to nake.him book
worm; and so at eightand-forty he found
himself, as regards fortune, just SO much
worse that when he was ordained deacon
that he had aged a quarter Of century,
and was add1ed, moreover, with five
serious responsibilities IN the persons of
. wife and four daughters. ..,e
Sons had been given him, but they
we're dead; opportunities had presented
themselves, but he was not a man to
avail himself of them. The list of authors
with whose works he was intimately ac-
quainted could not be considered other
than APPALLING, but no writer amongst
them had been able to teach him how to
compose a reslly fine sermon.
Even if he had managed to do 50, it
would not have been much appreciated
by the members of his congregation.
Better for him at Bersey to have known
something about sheep and roots, and
the points of good milch-cow, and SO
win his way to intimacy with his people,
than to excel in oratory. But Mr.. Var
fell, though unblessed with genius was
not blessed with common sense. Ii ever
q man were made d butt for the irony of
fortune, he was the man. fever round
peg found itself dropped into a square
hole, he was the peg. Of rural affairs he
knew even less than he did of courts.
With the tillers of the soil, and with the
men who looked to their laborers and
their wheat-felds to provide bread for
their families, the wherewithal to supply
their landlords requirements, he had as
much understanding sympathy as with a
Chinese. In return, his people did not
In the least understand him. t.
That they liked and respected him,
and in vague way we're proud of par
son who could read an the books ranged
round the walls Of his, study, arose more,
perhaps, from instinct than from reason
MFR. Yarrell.. was Christian and a
gentleman, and if he buried his talent
and rendered both qualities as useless as
such qualities ever can be made. it was
more his misfortune than his fault.
Such men generally marry young, a
wife destitute Of fortune. Mr.. Yarrell
married young q lady who would have
brought better dowry to him had she
come with an empty hand
As matters were, she had dot Of
three thousand pounds, which wos SO in
vested and tied up that it brought in un
der a hundred year; but if it had
yielded a revenue Of thirty thousand, il
could not have proved a greater source
of annoyance to Mr.. Yarrell.
College debts, an unlueky signature
mere matter of form to oblige a friend
expenses incurred at first entering the
Church, an easy temperament, and a
generous heart, had swallowed up the
small fortune wbich his father, younger
son, left him at his death.
The living of Bersey was, as,I have
said, poor, Year by year Mr.. Yarrell
failed to make his outgoings balance his
incomings. He had no personal extrava
gances; he was content to sit down tc
cold mutton, or to no mutton at all; but
Mrs. Yarrell thought the ninety ode
pounds year she possessed warranted g
certain expenditure which might no,
have been necessary had Mr.. Yarrel
married "a wife without sixpence;;' anc
consequently the vicar had, when debts
accumulated, to make an effort, and asl
assistance Of his grandfather.
a So long as his grandfather lived, the
PERIODICAL famine at Bersey Viearage wa.
relieved, not in any agreeable orgenerou
manner, perhaps, but still relieved.
Sir Bolton Yarrell did not give a penny
more than he was asked-very often, in
deed, not SO much as he was asked; ant
though he might have procured hi
grandson better and more congenia
living, he never made the least effort t.
do SO. But still, to a certain extent, h
did help, and it was only when he dice
that the actual bitterness of insufficien
means began to make itself felt at Bersey
Vicarage. ,G IA
In due time there came the accustomed
difficulty. and when it had lasted for .
longer period than usual, Mr.. Yarrell
though his pride WINGED during th'
operation, asked the new baronet, hi
cousin, for help.
Which was refused as curtly and dis
courteousfy as can well be imagined.
The latest owner had always beer
Jealous Of the favor shown to Mr.. YarreR
slight though the evidences Of that ia
vor were, and he told the clergyman il
SO many words he did not intend to ad
nit the claims of relationship, or to bur
den himself with the maintenance o