TAILIEUCHUNG - Father Payne

Often as I have thought of my old friend "Father Payne," as we affectionately called him, I had somehow never intended to write about him, or if I did, it was "like as a dream when one awaketh," a vision that melted away at the touch of common life. Yet I always felt that his was one of those rich personalities well worth depicting, if the attitude and gesture with which he faced the world could be caught and fixed. The difficulty was that he was a man of ideas rather than of performance, suggestive rather than active: and the whole history of his experiment. | Father Payne by Arthur Christopher Benson 1 PROJECT GUTENBERG FATHER PAYNE Father Payne by Arthur Christopher Benson The Project Gutenberg EBook of Father Payne by Arthur Christopher Benson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Father Payne Author Arthur Christopher Benson Release Date May 4 2004 EBook 12264 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FATHER PAYNE Produced by David Newman and PG Distributed Proofreaders. Produced from images provided by the Million Book Project. FATHER PAYNE By Arthur Christopher Benson 1915 Father Payne by Arthur Christopher Benson 2 PREFACE Often as I have thought of my old friend Father Payne as we affectionately called him I had somehow never intended to write about him or if I did it was like as a dream when one awaketh a vision that melted away at the touch of common life. Yet I always felt that his was one of those rich personalities well worth depicting if the attitude and gesture with which he faced the world could be caught and fixed. The difficulty was that he was a man of ideas rather than of performance suggestive rather than active and the whole history of his experiment with life was evasive and even to ordinary views fantastic. Besides my own life has been a busy one full of hard ordinary work it was not until the war gave me like many craftsmen a most reluctant and unwelcome space of leisure that I ever had the opportunity of considering the possibility of writing this book. I am too old to be a combatant and too much of a specialist in literature to transmute my activities. I lately found myself with my professional occupations suddenly suspended and moreover like many men who have followed a wholly peaceful profession plunged in a dark bewilderment as to the

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