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The parson made a fine gesture of dissent. He had forgotten Isabel. "Do you want to know what else I did?" Her voice grew hard and unfamiliar. "I'll tell you. I went to my sister Eliza, and I said: 'Some way or another, you've spoilt my life. I'll forgive you just as soon as I can maybe before you die, maybe not.
Seymour, of Handford. Some of the company asserting to the contrary of this, they desired our hero to try his ingenuity upon them, and then to discover himself, to convince them of it. This being agreed upon, and having received a handsome contribution of this company, he took his leave; but Parson Bryant followed him out, and acquainted him that the same company, and many more, would be at Mr.
"You don't believe all that, Meekin, do you?" The parson reproved him gently. "Wait a moment, sir, until I have finished." "'Party spirit runs very high, even in prison in Van Diemen's Land.
It was the first occasion on which the cup of ambition had been held before him, and to him it was momentous. He said little, but did not try and dissuade the Parson when he declared he would take the matter to the authorities, and he listened to Flynn for the rest of that evening with less the sensation of the outsider, the mere onlooker, than ever before.
"I'm glad to see you, Stephen," was Parson John's hearty greeting as he held out his hand. "Dan and I are on our way to visit the Stickles, and called in to see you in passing. What a snug place you have built here. I trust you are getting along nicely." "Better than I expected," was the reply. "But, say, Parson, you're just in time for dinner. Let me put Midnight in the barn.
Fred Vancourt, sat at luncheon in her sumptuously furnished house in Park Lane, and looked across the table at her husband, while he lazily sipped a glass of wine. "That ridiculous girl Maryllia has married her parson by this time I suppose," she said "Of course it's perfectly scandalous. Lady Beaulyon was quite disgusted when she heard of it such an alliance for a Vancourt! And Mr. and Mrs.
"Well, if you're a parson and I'm a minister," said Cass, "I'll bet everyone comes to listen to me preaching and none of 'em don't go to hear you." "I wouldn't care if they didn't," Mark affirmed. "You wouldn't care if you had to preach to a parcel of empty chairs and benches?" exclaimed Cass. "St. Francis preached to the trees," said Mark. "And St. Anthony preached to the fishes."
"The parson," complained Defoe in the "Poor Man's Plea," "preaches a thundering sermon against drunkenness, and the justice of the peace sets my poor neighbor in the stocks, and I am like to be much the better for either, when I know perhaps that this same parson and this same justice were both drunk together but the night before."
'There was lots of decay but no clergy about him, sir. I fancy I knows a parson when I sees one. Clergymen don't have scars on their cheekses as I knows of. 'Oh, indeed! said Cargrim, mentally noting that the doctor had spoken falsely. 'So he had a scar? 'A red scar, sir, on the right cheek, from his temple to the corner of his mouth.
"I shall gratefully do so, sir." "And now I really do suppose it is time to order the carriage, if we mean to go to church to-day," said the judge, rising and touching the bell. Jim answered it. "Have the gray horses put to the barouche and brought around. And put a case of that old port wine in the box; I intend to take it as a present to the parson.
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