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Title: Francis Paget, bishop of Oxford, chancellor of the Order of the Garter, honorary student and sometime dean of Christ church
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Paget, Stephen, 1855-1926 Crum, J. M. C
Subjects: Paget, Francis, Bishop of Oxford, 1851-1911
Publisher: London : Macmillan and co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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all : I bowed and apologized myself backwards into mybedroom, from which I emerged an altered being. ^ All through his earlier life he made her his counsellor. In 1882 he writes tohtr, thanking her for all that she has been to him, ever since the days when, I canremember, I used to wait, in the dim foreshadowings of penitence, to tell yourather than anybody else when I had been naughty—I can recall the whole scenesometimes, even the very vagueness of my fear and sense of need j and he remindsher, on her birthday, of the old childlike birthdays, for which one used to wakewith a joyful and presumptuous sense that it was ones own day, specially devoted,somehow, to the gratification of all ones own tastes in sweets and domestic pre-eminence. In 1885 he praises her kindness ever since you were my sister-confessor, & I used to cry in the nursery till you came, because I felt wicked. Ithink there was something very typical in those nursery consolations, which Iremember very vividly. 20
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Phoij. Hi us C- Said. ROSCOFF, 1873. PT. icH. II CHRIST CHURCH, 1869-1874 21 However, yesterday we had a very pleasant andamusing breakfast, & have, I think, settled most of theimportant questions of the day. He finds Sundaydull, for want of something to read : Why doesntsomebody write a decent Sunday novel ? I think thestate of our Sabbatical literature is disgraceful. I canfind nothing between The Sunday at Home and HaresSermons. Id try Pilgrims Progress^ only Giant Popehas failed to frighten me. ^ He is reading steadily— Im very glad to say that I have kept up and improvedmy average, so that I have worked a little over sevenhours every day since my Matric. — and he is notafraid of being ploughed for Responsions, but he willbe glad when he is through : It makes one dizzy tolook over a precipice, even though one has not thesmallest intention or expectation of tumbling over,simply to think what a mangled corpse one would beat the bottom. He writes also of the floods, and ofa d

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