The Life of Monsignor, Robert Hugh Benson #229317

At Cambridge Rectory<br>June 1905 - July 1908<br><br>Not on the valugar mass<br>Called "work" must sentence pass,<br>Things done, that took the eye and had the price ...<br>But all, the world's coarse thumb<br>And finger failed to plumb,<br>So passed, in making up the main account;<br>All instincts immature,<br>All purposes unsure,<br>That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount. R. Browning.<br><br>In June Father Benson migrated therefore to the Catholic Rectory, where he found himself under the kindly and most congenial presidency of Monsignor Scott.<br><br>"It is going," he characteristically writes to Mrs. Benson on June 3rd, 1905, "to be immensely happy here. I am assured that I must do exactly what I like in everything."<br><br>In treating of these three years, I shall still endeavour to allow, upon the whole, general views and judgments to emerge for each reader out of accumulated quotations from contemporary letters, feeling sure that, despite a certain scrappiness, or possible repetitions, or even an air of pedantry, readers will prefer to get as near as possible to Father Benson's own mind and mood.