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I've not had time to get attached to Carlingford. I've no associations with the place. Of course I shall be very glad to go back to all my old friends. Put that out of the question, Morley." But the Rector only shook his head once more. The more she made light of it, the more he perceived all the painful circumstances involved.
"A fire eating away inside, Aunt Bell burning out my goodness if the firemen would only come with engines and axes and hooks and things, and water I'd submit to being torn apart as meekly as any old house it hurts so!" The rector of St. Antipas came from preaching his Easter sermon. He was elated.
And this is what everybody did with one accord, when he was down upon his luck which is far more momentous than his nose to any man in the case of Rector Twemlow. That gentleman now had good reason for being in less than his usual cheer and comfort. Everything around him was uneasy, and everybody seemed to look at him, instead of looking up to him, as the manner used to be.
The Rector of Epworth had been slowly mastering his difficulties with the world. The circumstances of the family seem to have taken a favourable turn from the year 1724, when the small living of Wroote, four miles distant, and valued at £50 a year, was added to that of Epworth. The family removed to Wroote, and many of Mrs. Wesley's most interesting letters are dated from the parsonage there.
She had nothing to do with church matters except on Sunday, and she even went so far as to neglect to send for the rector when one of her children lay dying. She was attacked for the omission, but she defended herself. 'What was the use when the poor dear was only seven year old? What call was there for him to come to a blessed innocent like that?
"This last particular was extremely agreeable to me, for our last guinea was now broached; and the rector had lent my husband ten pounds to pay his debts in the country, for, with all his peevishness, he was a good and a generous man, and had, indeed, so many valuable qualities, that I lamented his temper, after I knew him thoroughly, as much on his account as on my own.
Father Fromm actually made peace though slowly with fate, and agreed that it was just as well Henrik could continue his father's business. He might find some respite in the fact that at least his second child would become a "lady." Desiderius had a joy in store for him in that he was to meet his erstwhile Rector, who was to give away the bride.
I felt that I had victory on my side, and was nothing loth to join them at whist, Philip and I against the rector and my aunt, and won something like two pounds apiece from them. Grafton made it a rule never to play.
As companions to this I present a pair of dwarf stones with full-relief heads of seraphs and cherubs an agreeable change from the same county. "To Sarah wife of Henry Bower, died 1741. To Henry Bower, died March 23rd, 1758." The Rector of the parish passed as I was sketching these interesting objects, and was surprised to find that he had anything so unusual in his churchyard.
Your cause would be the better one, had it not been for the knife, my fine young nobleman, but you, Adrian, and you, you chubby-cheeked rascals, who There comes the rector If he catches you, you'll certainly see nothing but four walls the rest of this beautiful day. I should be sorry for that."
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