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Show TOO EXALTED A PARENT. The great Wellington was always precise about religious observances. One Saturday evening a lady, one of his guests at Strathfieldsaye, Wellington's Welling-ton's country seat, apologized for not forming one of the party to church the following morning. She was a Roman Catholic and there was not a Catholic church within a distance of twenty or thirty miles. "That," said His Grace, "need be no difficulty. My carriage and horses are at your disposal. Breakfast Break-fast shall be ready a little before daybreak and the thing can easily be done." The second Duke of Wellington, in telling the story to" the author of "Society in the Country House," adds, "And she -had to go." "Imagine," he exclaimed, "the impossibility of ! living up to such a father!" Saturday Evening Post. |