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Suddenly, too acutely aware that half London's delight in them is simply its eagerness to be present at another "Crowne show," like Norman's disaster, Emily asks Philip Luttrell to marry her; Philip Luttrell, a country parson who has developed in his middle age a tardy adolescent adoration for her, covers his surprise with delight. Restraining a last minute eagerness to run away from the country wedding, Emily waits until she reaches London on the first night of her honeymoon to dodge Philip and go back to her brother. But at the house in Edwardes Square...
...feet off a California cliff. He was Lloyd W. Bertaud, aged 12. Grown-up he became an Army instructor in the War; an airmail pilot, a stunt flyer. Five years ago he went into the air with Miss Helen Lent of New York, and Belvin W. Maynard, "the flying-parson." The Reverend Maynard shouted a service into their ears; they came down to earth as Mr. & Mrs. Bertaud. Last week Lloyd Bertaud came down again, but not to earth. He splashed into the ocean, disappeared...
...Story of a parson outgrowing his profession, turning bitterly on his congregation with the news that Christianity is outlived, that God has left his church and returned to the fire and whirlwind, is one that might, almost any day nowadays, provide a sensation for the outspoken U. S. press. Particularly if there were violent or sexual details would the public be served to surfeit, until a very real crisis in one man's life became a vulgar byword, grossly misinterpreted...
...With young men and maidens, too, the parson hath his problems: for if from them he hold aloof, they mislike him much...
...token of their esteem for him. 'Midst much giggling and chaffing they passed tape measures about one another's waists. Total was 4,114 inches, an average of 68.5666 inches per matron. Unabashed, they gathered together a cent for each girth-inch; gave the $41.14 to their parson...