Description - The Last Years of St. Andrews; September 1890 to September 1895 by Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson Boyd
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...taste them. After I had been three weeks there, gazing upon Q them at breakfast, luncheon, and dinner, we took one each. The steep gravel walks close to the house, which heavy showers channelled into great furrows, were so treated as to be unaffected by the heaviest rain. As for the house itself, the alterations were endless: and very costly. Sir Arthur Blomfield had a free hand. Specially, the floor of the great hall, hitherto of stone, was parquetted in oak. An immense window was opened in the state-drawing-room, hitherto very dark: also at the foot of the grand staircase. The house was furnished anew in every corner. The chapel was re-fitted, very richly. The thought of the time was, ' Wonderful how Thorold, older than I am, is doing things in this house and park as if sure of many years. The upholsterer's bill, paid in one cheque, was' no matter what: something awful. ' He has spent in all, coming in, ' no matter what: many thousands. ' And the income is just 6500. a year, besides this house. He pays his Suffragan a handsome stipend, unlike' somebody else. I knew, at an early stage, that all that handsome furniture, with certain exceptions, was given by him to the see: ' that a. poor man might not find it impossible to be Bishop of Winchester.' Other Bishops, he said, had done very much for the see, and he must do his part. ' Yesterday he was sitting to Mr. Eddis for his portrait to be put in the great gallery of Bishops, in the grand blue mantle and other things, as Prelate of the Garter. He is indeed set high: but just the same kind friend, and wholly without pretence. I wish I could have his easy mind. Anxius vixi! All about the house are the portraits of those who have held the see: many great and good men, some wonderfully lucky but..
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