Upon
this I came in with more than a recommendation, and insisted that they
should go. They had started in the beginning of October, and had not
returned up to the time of which I am now about to write--somewhere in the
beginning of the month of April. But my sister was now almost quite well,
and I was not sorry to think that I should soon have a little more leisure
for such small literary pursuits as I delighted in--to my own enrichment,
and consequently to the good of my parishioners and friends.
CHAPTER X.
AN IMPORTANT LETTER.
It was, then, in the beginning of April that I received one morning an
epistle from an old college friend of mine, with whom I had renewed my
acquaintance of late, through the pleasure which he was kind enough to say
he had derived from reading a little book of mine upon the relation of the
mind of St. Paul to the gospel story. His name was Shepherd--a good name
for a clergyman. In his case both Christian name and patronymic might
remind him well of his duty. David Shepherd ought to be a good clergyman.
As soon as I had read the letter, I went with it open in my hand to find my
wife.
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