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Show Unexpected Recommendation. One day, when Lord Thurlow was very busy at his home in Ormond street, a poor curato applied to him for a living then vacant. "Don't trouble me," snld the chancellor, chan-cellor, turning upon him with a frowning frown-ing brow. "Don't you sec I am busy and can't listen to you? what duko or lord recommended you?" The poor curate lifted up his eyes and, with dejection, said he had no lord to recommend him but the Lord of Hosts. "Tho Lord of Hosts!" replied tho chancellor, "the Lord of Hosts! I believe be-lieve I havo had recommendations from most lords, but do not recollect duo from him before; so, doyouhenr, young man, you shall havo tho living." |
