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He followed it at first as one might watch a game of skill , enjoying the intellectual form of it , and counting the good points , but by the end he was not a little carried away . The peroration was undoubtedly very moving , very intimate , very modern , and Langham up to a certain point was extremely susceptible to oratory , as he was to music and acting . The critical judgment , however , at the root of him kept coolly repeating as he stood watching the people defile out of the church , -- ` This sort of thing will go down , will make a mark : Elsmere is at the beginning of a career ! ' In the afternoon Robert , who was feeling deeply guilty towards his wife , in that he had been forced to leave so much of the entertainment of Langham to her , asked his old friend to come for him to the school at four o'clock and take him for a walk between two engagements . Langham was punctual , and Robert carried him off first to see the Sunday cricket , which was in full swing . During the past year the young Rector had been developing a number of outdoor capacities which were probably always dormant in his Elsmere blood , the blood of generations of country gentlemen , but which had never had full opportunity before . He talked of fishing as Kingsley might have talked of it , and , indeed , with constant quotations from Kingsley ; and his cricket , which had been good enough at Oxford to get him into his College eleven , had stood him in specially good stead with the Murewell villagers .