ompanion was no other than Doctor Jaquemin Herode. Doctor
Jaquemin Herode belonged to the High Church; a party whose system is a
sort of popery without a pope. The Church of England was at that epoch
labouring with the tendencies which have since become strengthened and
condensed in the form of Puseyism. Doctor Jaquemin Herode belonged to
that shade of Anglicanism which is almost a variety of the Church of
Rome. He was haughty, precise, stiff, and commanding. His inner sight
scarcely penetrated outwardly. He possessed the letter in the place of
the spirit. His manner was arrogant; his presence imposing. He had less
the appearance of a "Reverend" than of a _Monsignore_. His frock-coat
was cut somewhat in the fashion of a cassock. His true centre would have
been Rome. He was a born Prelate of the Antechamber. He seemed to have
been created expressly to fill a part in the Papal Court, to walk behind
the Pontifical litter, with all the Court of Rome in _abitto paonazzo_.
The accident of his English birth and his theological education,
directed more towards the Old than the New Testament, had deprived him
of that destiny. All his splendours were comprised in his preferments as
Rector of St. Peter's Port, Dean of the Island of Guernsey, and
Surrogate of the Bishop of Winchester. These were, undoubtedly, not
without their glories. These glories did not prevent M. Jaquemin Herode
being, on the whole, a worthy man.

As a theologian he was esteemed by those who were able to judge of such
matters; he was almost an authority in the Court of Arches--that
Sorbonne of England.

He had the true air of erudition; a learned contraction of the eyes;
bristling nostrils; teeth which showed themselves at all times; a thin
upper lip and a thick lower one. He was the possessor of several learned
degrees, a valuable prebend, titled friends, the confidence of the
bishop, and a Bible, which he carried always in his pocket.

Mess Lethierry was so completely absorbed that the entrance of the two
priests produced no effect upon him, save a slight movement of the
eyebrows.

M. Jaquemin Herode advanced, bowed, alluded in a few sober and dignified
words to his recent promotion, and mentioned that he came according to
custom to introduce among the inhabitants, and to Mess Lethierry in
particular, his successor in the parish, the new Rector of St. Sampson,
the Rev. Ebenezer Caudray, henceforth the pastor of Mess Lethierry.

Deruchette rose.

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