New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-05-26
A CLERICAL WORLDIING.

ACLERICAL W0RLDLING.
The shutters of the rectory windows
were wide open. This was very unlike
the policy of tile rector Of St. AIMS,
who invariably prayed to be delivered
from the flies, dust and all disorder
Illness. But there had come change
in the life of Rev. Arthur Dibbins, as
there ever must be in mutable things.
He had married wealth, and with
wealth, bondage. It was the will OF
Mrs Dibbins that the shutters would
henceforth be open, and to this new
state of affairs the rector was recon
:ciled by many conpensations.
His shades" had been torn do wn
in a frenzy, and were now usurped by
$beautifully-fashioned screens of fine
brass links, purchased in Egypt.
There was drapery from Persia, and
a revolving fan, like a slavein attend
,ance over Mr.. Dlbbln's brown head
where he sat- Hortense, French
woman, removed every particle of
dust before it had settled. His papers
were filed and docketed with a sys-
TEN that he could only wonder and
admire. He was clad in a, jacket of
imported stuff, and crossed his
sslippered feet-albeit eighths-on a
fender ofextraor dinaryworkmanship.
All, yes! Heaven had sent compen-
stations. He had married Miss Rachel
PIympton with the full consent and
approval other parents--for, although
himself penniless (his SALARY OF four
thousand year counted as nothing
from the Plympton standpoint), he
was master OF a degree OF popularity
and clerical eminence which constitut-
ed fine stock in trade.
He was a handsome man, past 40,
with dark, sallow complexion, good
eyes, and hair and mustache of a
youthful cut. His manner was nerv-
Gus and self-conscious, yet saturated
with the aroma of culture which years
rof uninterrupted prosperity exhale.
For the Rev. Arthur Dibbins to fall
down or stumble up, was a horrid
anomaly; it produced at once laughter
and a. shock.
The wedding festivities over, the brid-
al couple had sailed for Europe.
They were very i'll on the voyage, but
recovered their strength and dignity
in cathedral aisles and galleries OF art.
They Summoned on the Alps, and
Wintered in the Riviera; sailed up the
Nile and down the Rhine; crossed the
glaciers and penetrated jung]es, the
products sof all of which were shipped
to Liverpool in ponderous boxes and
conveyed thence for the TRANSFORMED
ton Of the rectory, which was being
torn almost from it's foundations.
They had had a delightful trip. But
were capable of enjoying those inner
secrets known only to the tourist who
,reads and imagines between the lines
of his Badeker. 1t had rained occa-
sionally when they had wished to be
out OF doors, and they had experience
ed the usual--one might say, the cor
rect-trib ulations which follow in the
wake of cabmen and couriers. The
former had outraged them, and the
latter had thwarted their fondest de-
.sires.
Ca the whole, however, that intan-
1gible perfume of manner which is so
quickly dissipated by gross forms OF
adversely, had, in the person of Rev.
Arthur Dibbins, suffered no loss.
Seated in the breakfast-roo of the
rectory-the return voyage over-he
was enabled to live again in the OBJ
:leets around him, the charmed exist
tance of the past fourteen months. Ra-
chel, in a Paris Creation" smiled
from behind the urn like an aurora
sprung from the canvass. She had SUI
perintended the execution of his fa-
vorite dishes-fori it must be confessed
that Arthur's palate as we'll has soul,
had undergone cultivation abroad
which were now steaming with gentle
invitation from Dresden receptacles
before him. There were flowers in crys-
tai vases on the cloth, and as he leis-
surely slipped his chocolate, his left
hand held open the leaves of an en-
"OCl1ouCu O1uL1C.
The great Archdeacon was to per-
form in the rectory drawing-room
that morning, the entertainment con-
:sisting OF his lecture upon Dante, for
an elect few. Mr.. and Mrs. Dibbins
had been immersed for days in bog
raphies and criticisms OF the poet.
The rector was familiar with every
original line of Dante; he followed him
adoringly, however critically, through
.purgatory, paradise and hell. Hehad
a portrait Of him in a prettily -elabor-
lated frame, before which he poised his
slender figure and commented, for the
benefit ofhis guests, upon the grief
worn face. He could extract mouth,
sbrow and eyes, separately, and trace
their expression to certain well-defned
phases Of spiritual throes. He cursed
Florence, and apotheosized the wide
world which had fostered such great
genius. ;.
IsThere were many people," hesaid,
t.sto whom Providence had ordained