Page 77 - Fairbrass

He loves the beautiful service, and knows

that he is doing his duty by coming here.

So the two things come together/
‘ Fudge ! f replied the Kneeling Knight,
scornfully. ( Beauty and duty indeed !

Fairbrass, I’m afraid you’re a bit of a day-
dreamer. Your father was thinking of

neither the one nor the other, but was
grizzling over the future, and wondering

how on earth he’s going to find the money
to pay for the clothes that your mother is

tired of, and the expenses of the parties that
are forgotten by everybody who camc to

them. Beauty and duty ! Cash or crash
would be more to the purpose.'

‘ But won't you allow that anybody is
happy in church?' asked Fairbrass wist­

fully. ‘ Not even the young people who
don't know what troubles and anxieties are?1

‘ Why, my dear boy,’ was the answer,
( don’t you know that, in proportion, their

little vexations are really as great and as
hard to bear as their parents’ genuine cares?

a fact, by the way, that the fathers and