Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 05

· 1873

Do as the Heavens have done; forget your evil; With them, forgive yourself.--_The Winter's Tale_. THE curate of Brook-Green was sitting outside his door. The vicarage which he inhabited was a straggling, irregular, but picturesque building,--humble enough to suit the means of the curate, yet large enough to accommodate the vicar. It had been built in an age when the _indigentes et pauperes_ for whom universities were founded supplied, more than they do now, the fountains of the Christian ministry, when pastor and flock were more on an equality.…

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