Archidiaconissa de Silverbridge in comitatu Barnensi
I invite a brief Trollopean account of what Mr Archdeacon Grantley said when he heard that Dr Proudie had preferred Miss Slope to the Archdeaconry of Silverbridge.
It is not to be countenanced; it is impossible. Slope! Slope! That odious, obsequious, officious snake. Is it not enough that, swept along by the crinolines of the bishop’s wife, he disturbed the good order of the diocese and degraded the good name of its clergy? Oh no! Being banished he has bred his venom and dispatches to us Miss Slope. I tell you, Dean, this preferment must be prevented, stopped in its tracks. Are we now to be ruled by a prissy miss, a Sunday school fanatic, a Sabbatarian in zealots’ stockings? We must to the bishop straightaway and make him see the error of his ways. We know well, do we not, that the bishop’s mind, such as it is, having shunted up the hill, is quite as likely to roll back down the self-same incline. The only apron that Miss Slope will wear is that of the kitchen.
was for nearly three decades at Lancing College; where he taught Latin and Greek language and literature, was Head of Theology, and Assistant Chaplain. He has served three curacies, been a Parish Priest, and Senior Research Fellow at Pusey House in Oxford. Since 2011, he has been in full communion with the See of S Peter. The opinions expressed on this Blog are not asserted as being those of the Magisterium of the Church, but as the writer's opinions as a private individual. Nevertheless, the writer strives, hopes, and prays that the views he expresses are conformable with and supportive of the Magisterium. In this blog, the letters PF stand for Pope Francis. On this blog, 'Argumentum ad hominem' refers solely to the Lockean definition, Pressing a man with the consequences of his own concessions'.
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It is not to be countenanced; it is impossible. Slope! Slope! That odious, obsequious, officious snake. Is it not enough that, swept along by the crinolines of the bishop’s wife, he disturbed the good order of the diocese and degraded the good name of its clergy? Oh no! Being banished he has bred his venom and dispatches to us Miss Slope. I tell you, Dean, this preferment must be prevented, stopped in its tracks. Are we now to be ruled by a prissy miss, a Sunday school fanatic, a Sabbatarian in zealots’ stockings? We must to the bishop straightaway and make him see the error of his ways. We know well, do we not, that the bishop’s mind, such as it is, having shunted up the hill, is quite as likely to roll back down the self-same incline. The only apron that Miss Slope will wear is that of the kitchen.
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