Rumpole and the Age of Miracles Quotes

“The matters that arose in the Donkin case were of an ecclesiastical nature, a strange territory to Horace Rumpole whose concerns have been, over a long life-time, largely secular. It is true that my old father was a cleric, so I was, to that extent, a child of the manse; but his increasing doubts about the Thirty-nine Articles were only just balanced by his certainty that he was unequipped to earn a living in any other profession. So he clung on to his draughty vicarage in East Anglia as a man might to a small raft in stormy seas.”
― John Mortimer, Rumpole and the Age of Miracles