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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'.
... once graced the high altar of the church of Sancta Maria in Ara Coeli on the Capitoline Hill.
Fr John Hunwicke
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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Joe Lunn in William Cooper's 1950 novel Scenes from Provincial life ?
That is the judgment expressed to Helen, Duchess of Denver, by her brother-in-law Lord Peter Wimsey -- about his bride Harriet Vane keeping her maiden name, under which she has published, so as not to confuse (or lose) her readership. (The book is Dorothy Sayers' unfinished last novel Thrones, Dominations, completed by Jill Paton Walsh.)
Whoever it was, I hope he said it with an innocent intention to amuse.
In real life, all joking aside, the keeping of mistresses by married men is a filthy, sad, despicable thing. As is also, of course, the keeping of secretive lovers by married women. I have my faults, but I like to think there is not a single married woman who could seduce me, no matter how charming or beautiful.
My one guess - assuming I only get one guess - is that if it is not a character in one of the novels of Sayers who said it, it is a character in one of the great midcentury English novels by Powell. I don't think it is Waugh because I have read all of Waugh's novels except Helena and I don't remember the joke from any of those novels. But my memory is not good.
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