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Carlingford is, as is well known, essentially a quiet place. There is no trade in the town, properly so called. To be sure, there are two or three small counting-houses at the other end of George Street, in that ambitious pile called Gresham Chambers; but the owners of these places of business live, as a general rule, in villas, either detached or semi-detached, in the North-end, the new quarter, which, as everybody knows, is a region totally unrepresented in society. In Carlingford proper there is no trade, no manufactures, no anything in particular, except very pleasant parties and a superior class of people-a very superior class of people, indeed, to anything one expects to meet with in a country town, which is not even a county town, nor the seat of any particular interest. It is the boast of the place that it has no particular interest-not even a public school: for no reason in the world but because they like it, have so many nice people collected together in those pretty houses in Grange Lane-which is, of course, a very much higher tribute to the town than if any special inducement had led them there. But in every community some centre of life is necessary. This point, round which everything circles, is, in Carlingford, found in the clergy. They are the administrators of the commonwealth, the only people who have defined and compulsory duties to give a sharp outline to life. Somehow this touch of necessity and business seems needful even in the most refined society: a man who is obliged to be somewhere at a certain hour, to do something at a certain time, and whose public duties are not volunteer proceedings, but indispensable work, has a certain position of command among a leisurely and unoccupied community, not to say that it is a public boon to have some one whom everybody knows and can talk of. The minister in Salem Chapel was everything in his little world. That respectable connection would not have hung together half so closely but for this perpetual sub
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Book Description:
THE PERPETUAL CURATE is one of her Chronicles of Carlingford. Exquisite and entertaining comedies of Victorian provincial Society.
About the Author:
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828 - 1897) was a Scottish novelist, biographer, short story writer, translator, and critic. She was a prolific writer and is remembered for her novels that depict English and Scottish provincial life and for her creative narrative style and independent female characters. Her most enduring work is Chronicles of Carlingford,a series of five novels that chronicle life in a small English town. Her other works include Caleb Field (1851) andThe Ways of Life (1897).
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- PublisherCreatespace Independent Pub
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1493752804
- ISBN 13 9781493752805
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages172
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