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"Doctor," continued the priest, "this is a worthy dacent parishioner of mine, Denis O'Shaughnessy; and this is his son who has the honor to be already known to your lordship." "Sit down, O'Shaughnessy," said the Bishop, "take a seat, young man." "I humbly thank your lordship," replied Denis the elder, taking a chair as he spoke, and laying his hat beside him on the carpet.
Tricker told me that he could live on sixpence a day, and if it had been a question of food only, and our village could have cut itself adrift from the Union and the rates it entailed, we could easily have more than kept the poor old man to the end of his days in comfort. For years he was the only parishioner receiving any help from the immense sum the parish annually paid in rates.
Now, this rector had many congenial tastes with his parishioner, and was his only intimate; and, by repeated arguments, he succeeded in convincing the Squire that the unnatural life Owen was leading was in every way injurious. Unwillingly was the father wrought to part from his son; but he did at length send him to the Grammar School at Bangor, then under the management of an excellent classic.
"I can't say 'loving parishioner' to a man," laughed Miss Twining a bit nervously. "It isn't necessary," chuckled Polly. "If he came to see me oftener I'd love him more," said the little woman wistfully. "He'll come often enough now you just wait! He hasn't anybody in his church that can write such poetry as this." She patted the little book caressingly.
When a parishioner sent to ask him to attend a sick call, he could barely bring himself to anoint the dying man.
He knew that his wife played for high stakes among her own set indeed, every parishioner of St. Botolph's knew it; it was a whispered scandal. Yet, her touch thrilled him, and he was as wax in her fingers. She spent her life in an exotic atmosphere, but he knew that there was no evil in her nature.
McCheyne, of Dundee, said that before preaching on the Sabbath he sometimes visited some parishioner, who might be lying extremely low, for he found it good "to take a look over the verge." In my pastoral rounds I sometimes had an opportunity to do more execution in a single talk than in a score of sermons. I once spent an evening in a vain endeavor to bring a man to a decision for Christ.
But the exposure of a bitter winter's night, risked in the struggle across one of the bleakest flats of the district to carry the Sacrament to a dying parishioner, had brought on a peculiar and agonising form of neuralgia. And from this pain, so nobly earned, had sprung oh! mystery of human fate! a morphia-habit, with all that such a habit means for mind and body.
A different point of view. And feeling that he was betraying himself to Catherine, he put both letters into his pocket and went out of the house. But he had not gone many yards when he met a parishioner with a long story to tell, happily not a sick call, only a dispute about land.
But even the aforementioned elderly parishioner was compelled to allow before three months were over that little Theodora for we turned the name of my youngest daughter upside down for her "was a proper child." To none, however, did she seem to bring so much delight as to our dear Constance.
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