PATOU More out of tune all by itself than a whole village singing society!CHANTECLER Come, what have they done to you, that whistler and that posturer?...
There was one person, Stephen inferred, who had never from the beginning disparaged or ridiculed Gideon Vetch, and that person was Gideon Vetch himself.John Benham had once said that the man was a mere posturer -- but John Benham was wrong....
The priest, then, that I would recognize is not the celebrator of lonely and forlorn mysteries, the proprietor of divine blessings, the posturer in solemn ceremonies, but the man or woman of candid gaze, of fearless heart, of deep compassion, of infinite concern.It is these qualities which, if they are there, lend to rite and solemnity a holiness and a significance which they cannot win from antiquity or tradition....