are girls to learn
to carry themselves properly if they march in couples? They will not do
it when they leave the Limes, and will be utterly at fault. There is no
day in the week on which more general notice is taken than on Sunday;
there is no day on which differences are more apparent. The pupils
therefore walked irregularly, the irregularity being prescribed. The
entering the church; the leaving the pews; the loitering and salutations
in the churchyard; the show, superior saunter homewards were all the
result of lecture, study, and even of practice on week-days.
"Deliberation, ease," said Miss Ponsonby, "are the key to this, as they
are to so much in our behaviour, and surely on the Sabbath we ought more
than on any other day to avoid indecorous hurry and vulgarity."

Catharine's curiosity, after what Miss Arden had said, was a little
excited to know what kind of a man Mr. Cardew might be, and she imagined
him a young dandy. She saw a man about thirty-five with dark brown hair,
eyes set rather deeply in his head, a little too close together, a
delicate, thin, very slightly aquiline nose, and a mouth with curved
lips, which were, however, compressed as if with determination or
downright resolution. There was not a trace of dandyism in him, and he
reminded her immediately of a portrait she had seen of Edward Irving in a
shop at Eastthorpe.

He stood straight up in the pulpit reading from a little Testament he
held in his hand, and when he had given out his text he put the Testament
down and preached without notes. His subject was a passage in the life
of Jesus taken from Luke xviii. 18--

18. _And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, Good Master, what shall I
do to inherit eternal life_?

19. _And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou Me good? None is
good, save one, that is God_.

20. _Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not
kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and
mother_.

21. _And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up_.

22. _Now when Jesus heard these things, He said unto him, Yet lackest
thou one thing: sell all that thou hast and distribute unto the poor,
and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow Me_.

Mr Cardew did not approach this theme circuitously or indifferently, but
seemed in haste to be on close terms with it, as if it had dwelt with him
and he was eager to deliver his message