Crossword-Solution: PRYER 5 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

After the general fortune has been told, a separate and different manipulation is performed, to learn if the pryer into futurity will obtain a particular wish; and from the position of the wish card in the pack the required answer is deduced.

The style of his dress was very High Church, and his acquaintances were exclusively of the extreme High Church party, but he kept his views a good deal in the background in his rector’s presence, and that gentleman, though he looked askance on some of Pryer’s friends, had no such ground of complaint against him as to make him sever the connection.

Pryer, too, was popular in the pulpit, and, take him all round, it was probable that many worse curates would be found for one better.

When Pryer called on my hero, as soon as the two were alone together, he eyed him all over with a quick penetrating glance and seemed not dissatisfied with the result—for I must say here that Ernest had improved in personal appearance under the more genial treatment he had received at Cambridge.

Pryer, in fact, approved of him sufficiently to treat him civilly, and Ernest was immediately won by anyone who did this.