OK, God boy, I'll be in church tomorrow, front row and centre!

It wound up being an overwhelmingly positive experience that made me appreciate the steampunks around me even more.

Aye, ſquire, that thing [a statue of Hercules] has been fixt in this ſpot I warrant you theſe hundred years; it was ſadly out of kilter when I came to the eſtate, but I got my neighbour the conſtable, who is a carpenter, to make him that right arm, and put the ſtaff into it, for I could not bear to ſee ſuch a clumſy log as he had in it before; …

What is behind this unexpected decision?