pair of Geneva bands. Ernest
noticed that the bands were worn no longer, and lo! greater marvel still,
Theobald did not preach in his Master's gown, but in a surplice. The whole
character of the service was changed; you could not say it was high even now,
for high-church Theobald could never under any circumstances become, but the old
easy-going slovenliness, if I may say so, was gone forever. The orchestral
accompaniments to the hymns had disappeared while my hero was yet a boy, but
there had been no chaunting for some years after the harmonium had been
introduced. While Ernest was at Cambridge, Charlotte and Christina had prevailed
on Theobald to allow the canticles to be sung; and sung they were to
old-fashioned double chaunts by Lord Mornington and Dr. Dupuis and others.
Theobald did not like it, but he did it, or allowed it to be done.
    Then Christina said, »My dear, do you know, I really think« (Christina
always really thought) »that the people liked the chaunting very much, and that
it will be a means of bringing many, many to church who have staid away
hitherto. I was talking about it to Mrs. Goodhew and to old Miss Wright but
yesterday, and they quite agreed with me, but they all said that we ought to
chaunt the Glory be to the Father at the end of each of the psalms instead of
saying it.« Theobald looked black - he felt the waters of chaunting rising
higher and higher upon him inch by inch, but he felt also - he knew not why, but
he felt it - that he had better yield than fight. So he ordered the Glory be to
the Father to be chaunted in future; but he did not like it.
    »Really mamma dear,« said Charlotte, when the battle was won, »you should
not call it the Glory be to the Father - you should say Gloria.«
    »Of course, my dear,« said Christina; and she said »Gloria« forever after.
Then she thought what a wonderfully clever girl Charlotte was, and how she ought
to marry no one lower than a bishop.
    By and by when Theobald went away for an unusually long holiday one summer,
he could find no one but a rather high-church clergyman to take his duty. This
gentleman was a man of weight in the neighbourhood, having considerable private
means, but without preferment. In the summer he would often help his brother
clergymen, and it was through his being willing to take the duty