Lieutenant Godfrey Winslow, of the navy, famed for his splendid behavior in the late so-and-so affair. That stately house at the right, they said, was his home what brief times the sea was not. There lived, it would be added, his younger brother, so rapidly coming into note, -- the eccentric but gifted rector of All Angels; whose great success in the heart of a Congrega- tional community was due hardly more to his high talents than to the combined winsomeness and practical sympathies of his beautiful bride, or to the resourceful wisdom and zeal of his churchwarden, Leonard Byington. "Any relation to Byington, your new political leader in these parts?" "Same man," the answer would -71- |