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Updated: July 7, 2025
But the old hag cried out, "God forgive thee thy sins; the whole village knows that I am a devout woman, and one serving the Lord in all things"; whereupon she called up old Zuter Witthahn and my church-warden Claus Bulk, who bore witness hereto.
It was essentially a church-warden kind of dinner, with all the other wardens and their wives to meet the rector and his lady, the kind of dinner that one gives and goes to, out of stern necessity, when, all the time, one longs for something just a little less made up by rule of thumb.
"High boots, doublets of fine leather, gay plumes in their morions and hats, large coats of mail, halberds that would kill half a dozen and all like new." "They probably didn't want to spoil them, and so found a place of safety as soon as possible, the windy cowards," cried the wife of Church-warden de Haes, whose sharp tongue was well known.
He had this same idea that the church was every thing, and that every thing belonged to the church. When I told him that he was a common nuisance, and that I had to work for him like a church-warden, he laughed as though it were a joke, and seriously told me it was all right, and he didn't mind my skepticism at all.
The church-warden refused, very properly, but the brother's entreaties, the widow's tears, the tragedy itself, and other influences, extorted at last a reluctant consent, coupled with certain sanatory conditions. The funeral was conducted unobtrusively, and the grave dug out of sight of Gosshawk.
"If your only impulse when you hear reason is to search after hard names for it, you are safer outside of its sphere altogether." "I am struck with the truth of that remark," observed the rector; "and the more so because I descry a male member of our race approaching, with a hat at once the emblem and the crown of sound reason. Away with all fallacies; it is Church-warden Cheeseman!"
She bent over, and laid her cheek to his almost motionless lips. "Well, dear," she said, "have you seen the church-warden part they have given your hair?" He shook his head impatiently, and she saw, she had made the mistake of trying to give the tone to an interview in which she was not the leading character. "Who has the room above mine, Adelaide?" he asked. "My maid."
Uprightness of the most sensitive order that which has slipped and strained its tendons stamped all his dealings, even in the butter line; and facts having furnished a creditable motive for his rash reliance upon his own cord, he turned amid applause to the pleasant pastimes of a smug church-warden. And when he was wafted to a still sublimer sphere, his grandson carried on the business well.
"You have not had a whiff with me for a long time, and here is a new church-warden waiting to be broken in." "But, I shall interrupt you," Mr. Larkins replied. "No, no, not in the least." "Well, then, I agree to remain for one smoke, if you will promise that you will read your letters, and not mind me. I see a new magazine on the table which looks very tempting."
The quartette party sat downstairs with open windows, each of the three seniors pulling gravely at a long church-warden, and the junior pretending to look at an old-fashioned book of beauty, in which a number of impossible ladies simpered on the observer from bowers of painted foliage.
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