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Perpetual Curate, by Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
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Title: The Perpetual Curate
Author: Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
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Language: English
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Chronicles of Carlingford.
THE PERPETUAL CURATE
MRS OLIPHANT
ALLA PADRONA MIA; ED A TE, SORELLA CARISSIMA! CONSOLATRICI GENTILLISSIME DELLA DESOLATA.
CHAPTER I.
Carlingford is, as is well known, essentially a quiet place. There is no trade in the town, properly so called. To be sure, there are two or three small counting-houses at the other end of George Street, in that ambitious pile called Gresham Chambers; but the owners of these places of business live, as a general rule, in villas, either detached or semi-detached, in the North-end, the new quarter, which, as everybody knows, is a region totally unrepresented in society. In Carlingford proper there is no trade, no manufactures, no anything in particular, except very pleasant parties and a superior class of people--a very superior class of people, indeed, to any