Yes, every Salem and Zion and Ebenezer in his large parish would
be closed. 'It is a great thing for the country,' said Mr
Williams.
'He'll make a capital member,' said Silverbridge, clapping his
friend on the back.
'I hope he'll never forget,' said Mr Williams, 'that he owes his
seat to the protestant and Church-of-England principles which have
sunk so deeply into the minds of the thoughtful portion of the
inhabitants of this borough.'
'Whom should they elect but Tregear?' said the mother, feeling
that her rector took too much of the praise himself.
'I think you have done more for us than anyone else,' whispered
Miss Tregear to the young Lord. 'What you said was so reassuring!'
The father before he went to bed expressed to his son, with some
trepidation, a hope that all this would lead to no great permanent
increase of expenditure.
That evening before he went to bed Lord Silverbridge wrote to his
father an account of what had taken place at Polpenno.
'Polwenning, 15 December
'MY DEAR FATHER,
'Among us all we have managed to return Tregear.
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