There were many other things besides the school, but they all went the same way.

The modern institution was introduced, championed by the Church, worked for by the Church, but when at last it was successful, somehow or other it seemed to have severed itself from the Church altogether.

The vicar walked about the village, and felt that, though nominally in it, he was really out of it.
His wife saw it too, still more clearly than he did.

She saw that he had none of the gift of getting money out of people.

Some men seem only to have to come in contact with others to at once receive the fruits of their dormant benevolent feelings.