The Vicar of Bullhampton

There is nothing further left to be told of this story of the village of Bullhampton and its Vicar beyond what may be necessary to satisfy the reader as to the condition and future prospects of the Brattle family. The writer of these pages ventures to hope that whatever may have been the fate in the readers' mind of that couple which are about to settle themselves peaceably at Dunripple, and to wait there in comfort till their own time for reigning shall have come

Romance parked at Dunripple while Brattle futures remain the true residual stake — dual plot closed with conscience priority — so plot scores 88.

Carry Brattle? It is not long since,--it is well within the memory of the author,--that the very existence of such a condition of life, as was hers, was supposed to be unknown to our sisters and daughters, and was, in truth, unknown to many of them. Whether that ignorance was good may be questioned; but that it exists no longer is beyond question.

Carry named as condition once unspeakable — cast as social type the novel forces into view — so cast scores 87.

Early in February Captain Marrable went to Dunripple to stay with his uncle, Sir Gregory, and there he still was when the middle of March had come. News of his doings reached the ladies at Loring, but it reached them through hands which were not held to be worthy of a perfect belief,--at any rate, on Mary Lowther's part.

Weeks of hunting rumour vs letter silence — serial wait inside cousin romance — so pace scores 84.

I am disposed to believe that no novel reader in England has seen the little town of Bullhampton, in Wiltshire, except such novel readers as live there, and those others, very few in number, who visit it perhaps four times a year for the purposes of trade, and who are known as commercial gentlemen.

Mock-census opener — ironical place prose before plot machinery — so prose scores 86.

The fifteenth of July was a Sunday, and it had been settled for some time past that on this day Mr. Puddleham would preach for the first time in his new chapel. The building had been hurried on through the early summer in order that this might be achieved; and although the fittings were not completed, and the outward signs of the masons and labourers had not been removed,--although the heaps of mortar were still there

Chapel opening with mortar heaps on glebe — Dissent/Church conflict as built landscape — so world scores 88.

Bullhampton is seventeen miles from Salisbury, eleven from Marlborough, nine from Westbury, seven from Haylesbury, and five from the nearest railroad station, which is called Bullhampton Road Station.

Mile-markers before characters — parish novel anchored as geography — so hook scores 87.

Then arises that further question,--how far the condition of such unfortunates should be made a matter of concern to the sweet young hearts of those whose delicacy and cleanliness of thought is a matter of pride to so many of us. Cannot women, who are good, pity the sufferings of the vicious, and do something perhaps to mitigate and shorten them, without contamination from the vice?

Narrator debates whether fallen women belong in novels for 'sweet young hearts' — explicit social-problem frame — so innov scores 89.

The writer of these pages ventures to hope that whatever may have been the fate in the readers' mind of that couple which are about to settle themselves peaceably at Dunripple, and to wait there in comfort till their own time for reigning shall have come, some sympathy may be felt for the Brattle family

Comfortable heirs deferred; sympathy redirected to Brattles — ending as conscience residual — so ending scores 86.