Tales and Novels Popular Tales - 2 Author:Maria Edgeworth Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1848 Original Publisher: Whittaker and Co. Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Women Authors Notes: This is a black and white OCR ... more »reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE LIMERICK GLOVES. CHAPTER I. It was Sunday morning, and a fine day in autumn; the bells of Hereford cathedral rang, and all the world smartly dressed were flocking to church. " Mrs. Hill! Mrs. Hill! -- Phoebe! Phoebe! There's the cathedral bell, I say, and neither of you ready for church, and I a verger;" cried Mr. Hill, the tanner, as he stood at the bottom of his own staircase. "I'm ready, papa," replied Phoebe ; and down she came, looking so clean, so fresh, and so gay, that her stern father's brows unbent, and he could only say to her, as she was drawing on a new pair of gloves, " Child, you ought to have had those gloves on before this time of day." " Before this time of day!" cried Mrs. Hill, who was now coming down stairs completely eqiu'pped, " before this time of day ! she should know better, I say, than to put on those gloves at all: more especially when going to the cathedral." " The gloves are very good gloves, as far as I see," replied Mr. Hill. " But no matter now. It is more fitting that we should be in proper time in our pew, to set an example, as becomes us, than to stand here talking of gloves and nonsense." He offered his wife and daughter each an arm, and set out for the cathedral ; but Phoebe was too busy in drawing on her new gloves, and her mother was too angry at the sight of them, to accept of Mr. Hill's courtesy : " What I say is always nonsens...« less