St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-05-10
THE BISHOPS SIN.


subject of considerable comment, it be-
comes kind of duty to give the true
account of the whole matter.
AS every body knows, Right Rev.
Everton and Tauphie was very Broad
Churchman, He had not boldly OPP
posed the Tractarian movement in the
oxford days? The Bishop had been
known to smile on Mr.. Spurgeon and
beam beneyolently upon metropolitan
Noodles an suburban Sankies. the
curates of his diocese were not interdict-
ed from cricket nor his rectors from
1awn-tennis; and / am not in position
to contradict the rumor that the Bishop
has been known to cut into rubber for
''silYer three-pennies," and in the
shadow of q stage-box once saw Mr..
Irving play Shylock.
Indeed, when Julian, his only son,
was at Eton, his father reioicel more at
his winning the public school rackets
than in his carrying off the Prince Con-
sorts prize for foreign languages; and
when up at Oriel he found his way into
the eight, the Bishops joy was so great
as to be at moments positively undigni-
fed. He liked his son to be in the best
set in town; he cheerfully paid en-
frances and subscriptions to various
clubs, the names of which were certain
" unfamiliar to him, but which Julian
assured him were t'necessaEiesn even
for Bishops infant. A rich and hon
orable alliance for Julian began to be a
very definite object in the Episcopal
eye, and consequently he highly APP
proved of Julian country-house visits;
his CHEEKY letters, containing catal-
ogues of the notahilities with whom he
had danced, or shot. or played charades,
were balm to his soul; and at break
fast, over an account Of the previous
evenings dinner and dance, the sacer-
notal spirits sensibly revived. Nomin-
ally. Julian was going to the Bar, and
duly ate dinners, or, rather, sulked in
dignfied silence at the Middle Temple
six o'clock mess in full evening dress,
and refused the profered joint on the
ground that he never ate boiled mutton
IN the afternoon. Naturally enough
this statement irritated his poor breth-
rem, especially as it was Julian's wont
to bolt to the Orleans for dinner the
moment grace was said.
Bearing these facts in mind, it win
be understood that the Bishop was
rather hurt when it came to his ears
that his SON had been frequently seen at
Mrs. Gideon Blewsby's small and
ear1ies' in Cockerton Crescent, Bays
water, and had subsequently, been OBJ
served at st. James Hall on Monday
evenings, apparently enwrapped in the
strains of a Spohr quartelte, in company
with pretty little girl known to all
Bayswater as Kitty Blewsby. When
finally Miss Crabbie told him that the
pair had been noticed shopping at
Whiteley's he could stand it no longer.
1T won't do, my boy" said the
Bishop one day. .sShe may be all you
say probably is; but then you know
Blewsby is solicitor attorneys we
used to call them and Dissenter, and
] don't lik it; besides the Crabbies talk
about it so. =
"My dear father said Julian, some
what hotly, Miss Crabbie is a member
of the Browning Society, and an Esoter-
ic Buddhist, and all the rest Of it; but
she is q frowsy old gossip for all that,
and Miss BleWsby is q charming, nat
ural girl, and worth fifty of Crabbie,
and
The Bishop looked aghast,
Besides, you know, going to the Bar
one must make friends with solicitors,
and her father has lots of work to give
q fellow.
Even the professional plea didn't
soften the Bishop; and he Wrinkled his
brow and his apron both usually
smooth as he said, indignantly. taking
his bedroom candle: "Preposterous!
perfectly nonstrous! I'm ashamed of
your
Why Julian rushed upstairs after his
father had retired, put on fresh tie, |
and dashed into a hanson, don t |
quite know; but in quarter Of an hour
he was laughing with Kitty Blewsby.
Dear little kitty--riant. ma;denly and |
bewitching looked up with frank de- |