Capitolo 34
positively in any place in the management, for colour it is not able him?'
'Well', answered Herbert, putting down the wine glass of Venetian glass
he was examining from near with due care in his/her niche in the
end-mantel, 'I without doubt have Wolsey had too much historical sense
never to advance completely out of his really century as my brother Ernest,
for example; but I have never felt his/her opinion on the subject of
colour-harmonies, and I should suspect to separately have been him/it
dyed with dawning symptoms of the vulgarity of rebirth. This is a
really, the beautiful bit of Berkeley Veneziano. As the dickenses do her
does succeed in picking up all these beautiful things, do I wonder me? Because it is not able me
if I/you/he/she allow them, now?'
'That that a question to put to a poor man
hungry devil of a parish priest as me!' Berkeley slightly said. 'You,
an incarnate sinecure and interest dressed of the sacred hangings, a revelling of the creature in
an income not earned of the Oriental and fabulous magnificence--I challenge says,
a thing that puts with another, fully as much as five hundred a
per annum--to ask to me, the unbeneficed and meaningless, with my wretch
remuneration of eighty pounds a year and my three passage-man a term
for classical mods, as I scrape off together the little one they put, hoarded
ha'pence that I run over reluctantly in my pots and my pipkins! I save
them from my supper, the Mr. Bursar--me them except. If the Church only
modest worth and recognized as should do!--if the bishops only
listened with owed attention the sound and the learned exegesis of
my evening of Sunday pronounces to St. Fredegond!--then, indeed, me
you/he/she would be prepared for concerning things through a more satisfied mean
--the mean of a beautiful, fat, juicy country to live. But for You,
The Breton--You, gentleman a pluralist and a sanguisorb of the more depth
shade--to scold me with my Franciscan poverty--oh, it is also
cruel!'
'I am an abuse, I know', Herbert responded, while his smiling and waving