Henrietta Temple Author:Benjamin Disraeli Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: softer even than serenades. The arrangement of their dwelling occupied the second month: each day witnessed some felicitous yet economical alteration of the crea... more »tive taste. The third month Lady Armine determined to make a garden. " I wish," said her affectionate husband, as he toiled with delight in her service; "I wish, my dear Constance, that Glastonbury was here; he was such a capital gardener." "Let us ask him, dear Katcliffe; and, perhaps, forsucha friend we have already allowed too great a space of time to elapse without sending an invitation." "Why, we are so happy," said Sir Ratcliffe, smiling; " and yet Glastonbury is the best creature in the world. I hope you will like him, dear Constance." "I am sure I shall, dear Ratcliffe. Give me that geranium, love. Write to him to-day; write to Glastonbury to-day." CHAPTER HI. Arrival of Glastonbujy. Adrian Glastonbury was a younger son of an old but decayed English family. He had been educated at a college of Jesuits in France, and had entered at an early period of life the service of the Bomish Church, whose communion his family had never quitted. At college young Glastonbury had been alike distinguished for his assiduous talents and for the extreme benevolence of his disposition. His was one of those minds to which refinement is natural, and which learning and experience never deprive of simplicity. Apparently his passions were not violent; perhaps they were restrained by his profound piety. Next to his devotion, Glastonbury was most remarkable for his taste. The magnificent temples in which the mysteries of the Deity and saints he worshipped were celebrated, developed the latent predisposition for the beautiful , which became almost the master sentiment of his life. In the inspired and inspiring paintings t...« less