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These letters and messages were nearly always from the curate of some distant village, and told as often as not of a cheerful hopefulness in the work. Sometimes the good men themselves would come, sitting humbly beneath the hood of the great cart, or riding a mule, far enough in front to avoid the dust, and yet near enough for company.
Referring to John Melmoth see note at head of this story. "Now you can drop off with an easy mind, old man," said Claparon to Castanier. "For pity's sake, send for a cab and for a priest; send for the curate of Saint-Sulpice!" answered the old dragoon, sinking down upon the curbstone.
"O yes," she replied; "it does not take much trouble. There is no one to harm us. Would you like a book to read till papa and mamma come home; here is my Testament; or would you like I should read to you?" "Read to me," said the man. As Alice read from the history of Jesus, the tears ran down the robber's cheeks; he said nothing. When the curate came home, he repeated Alice's invitation to dine.
These descriptions are relieved at intervals by elaborate sketches of character, as in The Parish Register the vicar, the curate, the parish clerk, or by some notably pathetic incident in the life of a tenant of the almshouse, or a prisoner in the gaol.
The curate himself, if unmarried, secures the whole spinsterhood of the parish.
"History telleth of one Jacob Bunting, whose wife, several years younger than himself, played him certain sorry pranks with the young curate of the parish: the said Jacob, knowing nothing thereof, but furnishing great oblectation unto his neighbours, by boasting that he turned an excellent penny by selling poultry to his reverence above market prices, 'For Bessy, my girl, I'm a man of the world augh!"
Both are good Tories, hate the French, and would fight for the Church; but we are sure that Squire Western considers a curate as but a poor creature, and we fear Squire Smith has not any Puritanical reverence for the clergy, for curates, at least; for we are told, that, when the Reverend Mr.
You feel sure as you look at him that he will keep things going at a sing-song, that a canteen under his management will be efficiently run. He is a very different man indeed from that pre-war curate of Punch's whose egg has become proverbial, or that other who confided to an admiring lady that, when preaching, he liked every fold of his surplice to tell.
For he was confident that the curate, in the temper which was now his, must ere long come immediately upon the truth towards which he was tempted to point him. On one occasion when Wingfold had asked him whether he saw the meaning of a certain saying of our Lord, Polwarth answered thus: "I think I do, but whether I could at present make you see it, I cannot tell.
'I think, he said, 'I shall ask Lady Geoghegan' he rolled the title out emphatically; it formed a salve to his wounded dignity 'I shall ask Lady Geoghegan to purchase the tweed for me. I must be on the look-out for a friend who promised to meet me here this afternoon a young man whom I contemplate engaging as my curate.
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