If, she said, it had been "a visitation of Providence, or the like of that there," he would have borne it patiently.

"But to come upon a man in the wood-house" was not in the fitness of things.

Froude's favourite places of worship in London were Westminster Abbey during Dean Stanley's time, and afterwards the Temple Church, as may be gathered from his Short Study on the Templars.

In Devonshire he frequented an old-fashioned church where stringed instruments were still played, and was much delighted with the remark of a fiddler which he overheard.

"Who is the King of glory ?" had been given out as the anthem.