We have vestments during the week, but not at
the mid-day Celebration."
Mark had not intended to attach himself to what he considered a too
indefinite Catholicism; but inasmuch as the Bishop had found him this
job he made up his mind to give to it at any rate his deacon's year and
his first year as a priest.
"I've been brought up in the vanguard of the Movement," he admitted.
"But you can rely on me, sir, to be loyal to your point of view, even if
I disagreed with it. I can't pretend to believe much in moderation; but
I should always be your curate before anything else, and I hope very
much indeed that you will offer me the title."
"You'll find me dull company," Mr. Shuter sighed. "My health has gone
all to pieces this last year."
"I shall have a good deal of reading to do for my priest's examination,"
Mark reminded him. "I shall try not to bother you."
The result of Mark's visit to Galton was that amongst the various
testimonials and papers he forwarded two months later to the Bishop's
Registrar was the following:
To the Right Reverend Aylmer, Lord Bishop of Silchester.
I, Arnold Shuter, Vicar of St. Luke's, Galton, in the County of
Southampton, and your Lordship's Diocese of Silchester, do hereby
nominate Mark Lidderdale, to perform the office of Assistant Curate
in my Church of St.
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