ABSTRACT
IN the mean while Mr. Lumeire had written a full detail of this mournful occurrence to the Doctor, dwelling strongly on the arts and duplicity of Tickle, and extenuating the error of Matilda, and the imprudence of Frances. The Doctor was sitting with his constant visitor, Dr. Sourby, enjoying their evening pipes, and drawing the saw of controversy. / The conversation had gradually verged to Matilda, the theme on which they generally most enlarged; and at last condensed the scattered observations of the night. ‘I have no doubt,’ said Dr. Homily, ‘but the Captain, after obtaining his father’s consent, and selling his commission, may be induced to receive episcopal ordination. 45 You might undertake to brush up his Latin and Greek, and I could make him master of the fathers and practical theology.’
