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This diabolical agent had the Divine permission, for a season, to burrow into the clergyman's intimacy, and plot against his soul. No sensible man, it was confessed, could doubt on which side the victory would turn. The people looked, with an unshaken hope, to see the minister come forth out of the conflict, transfigured with the glory which he would unquestionably win.
The Hebrew alphabet, Mr. Spinrobin, is a 'discourse in methods of manifestation, of formation. In its correct pronunciation lies a way to direct knowledge of divine powers, and to conditions beyond this physical existence." The clergyman's voice grew lower and lower as he proceeded, and the conviction was unavoidable that he referred to things whereof he had practical knowledge.
To visit the house of my bitterest enemy to make a friend of his sister, was a glaring impropriety in a clergyman's wife, and I cannot even now feel any compunction at having put a stop to their intercourse if, indeed, I succeeded in doing so.
Nor did Miss Gushing altogether fail in her object. When a clergyman's daily audience consists of but one person, and that person is a young lady, it is hardly possible that he should not become personally intimate with her; hardly possible that he should not be in some measure grateful.
He is a believer in systematic confession, but is careful to say that this was not inculcated upon him, but only indicated, and that his belief in it is based on practical experience. He also imbibed a great love of liturgical and ceremonial usage. He was for a short time a country curate, and married a clergyman's daughter.
I have as complete a right to form my acquaintance as he has to form his. What would you have said had I consulted you as to the propriety of my banishing Dr. Grantly from my house because he knows Lord Tattenham Corner? I am sure Lord Tattenham is quite as objectionable an acquaintance for a clergyman as Mr. Slope is for a clergyman's daughter." "I do not know Lord Tattenham Corner."
Immediately we could perceive him start upon his feet, fall down upon his knees, and lift up both his hands; at which the tears ran down my clergyman's cheeks; but our great misfortune was, we could not hear one word that passed between them.
Sam'l Bunce!" it was only the man who turned his head, waving his hand as if in reply to a belated farewell. The parson swung round in time to see Melchard snatch the handkerchief from the ostler's hand. Feeling the clergyman's eyes upon him, he muttered: "Looks like one of mine," and ran the hem quickly through his fingers, prying into the corners.
Upon these two incongruous qualities Spinrobin always insists. "The deaf shall hear !" came sharply from the clergyman's lips, the sentence uncompleted, for the housekeeper cut him short. "They're out!" she cried with a loud, half-frightened jubilance; "Mr. Skale's prisoners are bursting their way about the house.
Yes, I believe so. How can they help it indeed, when one hundred a year is a very ordinary amount for a clergyman's income?" Mr. Percy shrugged his shoulders. "I agree with you entirely. No man ought to marry under those circumstances. But I wish you would enlighten me on one point, what are shanties?"
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