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in great gravity, with large gold pins, who handed him, at the anthem, a
large, new, gilt hymn-book.
An odour of millefleurs rustled by them as Charles Honeyman accompanied
by his ecclesiastical valet, passed the pew from the vestry, and took his
place at the desk. Formerly he used to wear a flaunting scarf over his
surplice, which was very wide and full; and Clive remembered when as a
boy he entered the sacred robing-room, how his uncle used to pat and puff
out the scarf and the sleeves of his vestment, and to arrange the natty
curl on his forehead and take his place, a fine example of florid church
decoration. Now the scarf was trimmed down to be as narrow as your
neckcloth, and hung loose and straight over the back; the ephod was cut
straight and as close and short as might be,--I believe there was a
little trimming of lace to the narrow sleeves, and a slight arabesque of
tape, or other substance, round the edge of the surplice. As for the curl
on the forehead, it was no more visible than the Maypole in the Strand,
or the Cross at Charing.
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