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She's fair and forty just about Buntingford's age quite good-looking quite clever lives by herself, reads a great deal runs the parish you know the kind of thing. They swarm! I think she would like to marry Cousin Philip, if he would let her." Mrs. Friend hurriedly shut the door at her back, which had been slightly ajar. Helena laughed the merry but very soft laugh Mrs.
I hope there will be no billeting in this parish, or any wild work of that sort; for what would a poor old lamiger like myself do with soldiers in his house, and nothing to feed 'em with? Anne began reading, and continued at her task nearly ten minutes, when she was interrupted by the appearance in the quadrangular slough without of a large figure in the uniform of the yeomanry cavalry.
It is often to me very curious food for meditation, that as the parish increased in population, there should have been less cause for matter to record.
Leaning back on the cushioned seat, as the train started again, he reviewed the years at Bremerton, his first and only parish. Clouds had indeed rested on Bremerton's crests, but beneficent clouds, always scattered by the sun. And there, amid the dazzling snows, he had on occasions walked with God. His success, modest though it were, had been too simple.
What my friend treated as so wild a supposition, has actually happened in the Western islands of Scotland, if we may believe Martin, who tells it of the islands of Col and Tyr-yi, and says that it is proved by the parish registers.
"Yes, yes; God be merciful to them and now we get the fruit of their labors! The parish won't take the farm away again not from us," he said. Lasse spoke in a tone full of self-reliance. Pelle had never seen him stand so upright. "I can never feel quite easy about it," said Karna; "it's as though one were ploughing up churchyard soil.
"Somebody observed once that you could pick out the likeness of 'most every sort of a foreigner when you looked about you in our parish," said Sister Caplin, her face brightening with sudden illumination. "I didn't see the bearin' of it then quite so plain. I always did think Mari' Harris resembled a Chinee." "Mari' Harris was pretty as a child, I remember," said the pleasant voice of Mrs.
Most men would say things have steadily gone from bad to worse with me, and certainly I shall not pretend to feel any love for suffering in itself. On the contrary, it hurts. It does not ennoble. It rather brutalises, unless it becomes so great that it embraces all things. I was once Engineer in charge at the First Cataract now I am a blacksmith in a country parish. And that hurts.
Didn't I say that I'd tell ye a story as would prove to ye that ghosts drink, more especially Irish ghosts? To be sure it turned out afterwards that the ghost was the sexton o' the parish as took advantage o' the poor widdy's fears; but I can tell ye, boys, that ghost niver came back after the widdy became Mrs Briant." "Oh! then ye married the widder, did ye?" said Jim Scroggles.
She was an ardent Christian, and devoted herself to works of beneficence and Christian service among the poor, as far as her delicate health would allow. Mary was born at Halesworth in Suffolk, of which parish her father was then the rector, on August 31, 1824. The following year her father was appointed Principal of St. Alban Hall, and removed with his family to Oxford.