Sublime

There was an unspoken dignity, an impenetrable reserve that protected him against undue familiarity. Aside from relatives, old friends from college, and senior statesmen whom he had known—men like Josephus Daniels and Al Smith—Louis Howe was the only person to call him Franklin.

Sir Morris Abbot,

house, he beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital sentence.

1. Partly by the Word

Woodston, it is implied, is where Henry is the incumbent local clergyman. The reason, confirmed later, he can still make Northanger half his home, and spend many weeks in Bath, is that he has a curate, a clergyman hired by the incumbent to perform some or all of the work in the parish. Many clergymen hired curates, in part because the abundance of

CHAPTER 9 How Abiding Guides Our Asking

chief among the guiding ideals of the Truce was a commitment to protect the defenceless against the depredations of violent men, and

men again began dying. From the Red Dragon were lost the master’s mate, the preacher, the surgeon and ‘tenne other common men’.

The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him. Genesis 40:23