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Grandmother was outraged...That she should live to see her own husband on the wrong side of a counter was really the last straw in a married life strewn with straws.

So often in his experience the moor miseries of life had been eased by the touch of humanity; would the great miseries, when they came, be eased by God’s touch? One would have to be old to know and the old, he had noticed, and not the young, were more often the men of faith.

The Dean and Lady Lavinia always patronized the Bishop a little. The man lacked private means and as a result the soles at his dinner parties were lemon, not Dover...But it was noticeable that people in difficulties always went to the Bishop for help rather than to the Dean.

Oh, I love the details around page 83 about Mary and Martha. How funny! I’m afraid I could be like them quite easily: nosing endlessly into other people’s business.

Love the later paragraph here on page 59.