CHAP

Fleming, who had been headmaster for the quarter of a century, was become too deaf to continue his work to the greater glory of God; and when one of the livings on the outskirts of the city fell vacant, with a stipend of six hundred a year, the Chapter offered it to him in such a manner as to imply that they thought it high time for him to retire.

They could not imagine how the Chapter had made such a mistake.

Franklin Blake presents his compliments to Miss Clack, and begs to thank her for the fifth chapter of her narrative.

In the meanwhile she would be glad to know, before beginning the final chapters of her narrative, whether she may be permitted to make her humble contribution complete, by availing herself of the light which later discoveries have thrown on the mystery of the Moonstone."

"I think, since Angel has come, that it will be more appropriate to read the thirty-first of Proverbs than the chapter which we should have had in the usual course of our reading?"

"The words of King Lemuel" (she could cite chapter and verse as well as her husband).

But if Geoffrey was a bad writer of history, he was good as "a fabler," and, as we have seen in chapter vii., it was to his book that we owe the first long poem written in English after the Conquest.

So, perhaps, it would be well to go back and read chapter vii., and then we must go on to the Metrical Romances.