Equal To The Occasion (1887)

Excerpt From Equal To The Occasion. Tradition Further Said That When The Church Was Built And For Long 'Afterwards There Had Stood About Its Quadrangle Sixteen Trees Four On Each Side. An Old Man Still Living Remembered Another Old Man Who Had Seen These In Their Glory And Certainly In Going About The Damp Little Square One Could See Inequalities In The Paving Where Those Trees Ought To Have Been. But Only One Remained Now With Its Poor Roots Closed In Under The Stones And It Put Forth Leaves More Scantily Every Year Though Miss Griffin The Old Housekeeper Of The Warehouse At The Corner Threw Buckets Of Water Round Its Trunk.. The Rev. Harold Bentley Was An Entire Stranger In The Place. He Did Not Know The Church Nor Its Vicar. He Had Never Been In The Neighbourhood Be Fore And Did Not Even Know Much Of London At All. The Vicar Of St. Cecilia'S Was Now Taking His Summer Holiday. A Mutual Friend Of His And Mr. Bentley'S Had Undertaken The Duty And Had Fallen Ill And So Mr. Bentley Passing Through The Metropolis Had Taken His Place For This One Evening.. About The Publisher. Forgotten Books Publishes Hundreds Of Thousands Of Rare And Classic Books. Find More At Www.Forgottenbooks.Com. This Book Is A Reproduction Of An Important Historical Work. Forgotten Books Uses State-Of-The-Art Technology To Digitally Reconstruct The Work Preserving The Original Format Whilst Repairing Imperfections Present In The Aged Copy. In Rare Cases An Imperfection In The Original Such As A Blemish Or Missing Page May Be Replicated In Our Edition. We Do However Repair The Vast Majority Of Imperfections Successfully; Any Imperfections That Remain Are Intentionally Left To Preserve The State Of Such Historical Works.