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The Solitary Summer
·
Elizabeth Von Arnim
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We
have
had
countless
applications
during
the
last
few
weeks
for
the
living,
as
it
is
a
specially
fat
one
for
this
part
of
the
country,
with
a
yearly
income
of
six
thousand
marks,
and
a
good
house,
and
several
acres
of
land.
The
Man
of
Wrath
has
been
distracted
by
the
difficulties
of
choice.
According
to
the
letters
of
recommendation,
they
were
all
wonderful
men
with
unrivalled
powers
of
preaching,
but
on
closer
inquiry
there
was
sure
to
be
some
drawback.
One
was
too
old,
another
not
old
enough;
another
had
twelve
children,
and
the
parsonage
only
allows
for
eight;
one
had
a
shrewish
wife,
and
another
was
of
Liberal
tendencies
in
politics--a
fatal
objection;
one
was
in
money
difficulties
because
he
would
spend
more
than
he
had,
which
was
not
surprising
when
one
heard
what
he
did
have;
and
another
was
disliked
in
his
parish
because
he
and
his
wife
were
too
close-fisted
and
would
not
spend
at
all;
and
at
last,
the
Man
of
Wrath
explained,
the
moment
having
arrived
when
if
he
did
not
himself
appoint
somebody
his
right
to
do
so
would
lapse,
he
had
written
to
the
one
who
was
coming,
and
invited
him
down
that
he
might
look
at
him,
and
ask
him
searching
questions
as
to
the
faith
which
is
in
him.
I
forgot
my
gloom,
and
my
half-formed
desperate
resolve
to
break
my
vow
of
solitude
and
fill
the
house
with
the
frivolous,
as
I
sat
listening
to
the
cheerful
talk
of
the
little
parson
this
evening.
He
was
so
cheerful,
yet
it
was
hard
to
see
any
cause
for
it
in
the
life
he
was
leading,
a
life
led
by
the
great
majority
of
the
German
clergy,
fat
livings
being
as
rare
here
as
anywhere
else.
He
told
us
with
pleasant
frankness
all
about
himself,
how
he
lived
on
an
income
of
two
thousand
marks
with
a
wife
and
six
children,
and
how
he
was
often
sorely
put
to
it
to
keep
decent
shoes
on
their
feet.
"I
am
continually
drawing
up
plans
of
expenditure,"
he
said,
"but
the
shoemaker's
bill
is
always
so
much
more
than
I
had
expected
that
it
throws
my
calculations
completely
out."
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