The Impossible Life of Mary Benson by Rodney Bolt

Author:Rodney Bolt [Bolt, Rodney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857899057
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2014-02-18T05:00:00+00:00

FRED REMEMBERS SUNDAY AFTERNOONS AT ADDINGTON, IN OUR FAMILY AFFAIRS

There was early communion in the chapel. . . [then] morning service in the church was succeeded by lunch, lunch by a slow family walk during which my father read George Herbert to us; the walk was succeeded by a Bible reading with him, and then came tea. After tea was evening service in the church, and after Sunday supper, he read the Pilgrim’s Progress aloud until we had compline in the chapel. . . No shoal of relaxation emerged from the roaring devotional flood; if at meals the conversation became too secular, it was brought back into appropriate channels. . . No games of any sort or kind were played, not even those which like lawn-tennis or golf entailed no labour on the part of the servants. . . The Day of Rest in fact, owing chiefly to this prohibition on reasonable relaxation, became a day of pitiless fatigue. . . To my father, I make no doubt, with his intensely devotional mind, this strenuous Sunday was a time of refreshment. . . What he did not allow for was that on other temperaments, that which so aptly fulfilled the desires of his own produced a totally different impression. That day, for us, was one of crushing boredom and unutterable fatigue.

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