He lay there in a pool of his own sick.

What is striking in this letter is its deeply clericalist character.

The first lesson for the morning contains the law of the Jewish Pentecost, or Feast of Weeks, which was a type of ours.

There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker arm-chairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, boxing-gloves, a model oar, and other modest trophies or mementos of his college boating club; and all these articles, together with small knicknacks dating from Oxford days, made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.