Being without a family, I am flattered with these temporary adoptions into a friend's family; I feel a sort of cousinhood, or uncleship, for the season; I am inducted into degrees of affinity; and, in the participated socialities of the little community, I lay down for a brief while my solitary bachelorship.

He can't be inducted of course yet; but he has written to say he will come down on Saturday and take matters in hand.

" Crabbe was inducted to the living of Trowbridge on the 3rd of June 1814, and preached his first sermon two days later.