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"And then we must insist," said the clergyman, "Five pounds." Mrs. Cave took it on herself to apologise for her husband, explaining that he was sometimes "a little odd," and as the two customers left, the couple prepared for a free discussion of the incident in all its bearings. Mrs. Cave talked to her husband with singular directness.

Deyncourt, a young clergyman who had come full of zeal to work up the growing district. He had been for a short time in the Northmoor neighbourhood, and had taken the duty there for a few weeks, so that he heard the name of Morton as prominent in good works, and had often seen Lady Adela and Constance with the Sunday-school. As Mr.

"Walk in, young man," said the father, in a benevolent tone of voice. "I am curious to see that instrument; and my daughter here, who has a taste for music, wishes it as much as I do myself. What do you call it?" "Hurty-gurty," I answered. "From what part of the world do you come, my young friend?" continued the clergyman, raising his meek eyes to mine still more curiously.

He smiled again as he went on up the street, but his hands as he buttoned his overcoat were shaking. It was shortly after that that he met the rector, Mr. Oglethorpe. He passed him quickly, but he was conscious that the clergyman had stopped and was staring after him. Half an hour later, sitting in the empty smoker of the train, he wondered if he had not missed something there.

It seems to me that he is a bird fouling his own nest. Now, I know I should be a rebellious clergyman." "In our church the life of a clergyman is as the life of any other gentleman within very broad limits." "Then why did Bishop Proudie interfere with your hunting?" "Limits may be very broad, Harry, and yet exclude hunting.

They did not follow him far, so Jack soon stopped and sat down on the road-side, in a very savage state of mind, to wipe the blood from his face and knuckles. While he was thus engaged, an elderly gentleman in the garb of a clergyman approached him. "What has happened to you, my man?" he asked. "That's none o' your business," answered Jack with angry emphasis.

I knew you would, so I loved you all the time." "Miss Ethelwyn," said Nancy, appearing, "there are callers in the drawing-room, and your grandmother wishes you to come in." Ethelwyn went in, and was presented to several of the ladies of the church, who had come to see about a reception to be given to the clergyman and his new young wife.

The girl was making the appeal to him alone, and a cloud of color gathered slowly over his face under her steady eyes. He regained himself, and replied, "No, you can't have the milk, no matter how much you may need it." "Some one'll die without it," she entreated again, lowering her voice, throwing no glance at the silent boy or shivering girl. "Then let them die," retorted the clergyman.

"Can't you tell me what it is and trust me?" There were tears in her eyes at the thought that her boy could keep aloof from her in his troubles. Her tender glance, her loving voice, touched Paul's heart. The whole confession trembled on his lips, and would have been poured forth, but at that moment the maid came up to say the clergyman had called, and Mrs.

It follows that the rectors and vicars must have been, as compared with the neighbouring knights and squires, much poorer in the seventeenth than in the nineteenth century. The place of the clergyman in society had been completely changed by the Reformation.