I'm not being very successful now in putting
it into words. I know my failure to gain a scholarship at Oxford
has been a great disappointment to you, especially after you had
worked so hard yourself to coach me. Please don't be anxious about
my letting my books go to the wall here. I had a talk about this
with Father Rowley, who insisted that anything I am allowed to do
in the district must only be done when I have a good morning's work
with my books behind me. I quite realize the importance of a
priest's education. One of the assistant priests here, a man called
Snaith, took a good degree at Cambridge both in classics and
theology, so I shall have somebody to keep me on the lines. If I
stay here three years and then have two years at Glastonbury I
don't honestly think that I shall start off much handicapped by
having missed both public school and university. I expect you're
smiling to read after one week of my staying here three years! But
I assure you that the moment I sat down to supper on the evening of
my arrival I felt at home. I think at first they all thought I was
an eager young Ritualist, but when they found that they didn't get
any rises out of ragging me, they shut up.
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