He did not speak until the car stopped at the gate of the little unpainted parsonage beside the white, weather-boarded church.

"Four weeks from the day papa was buried, the pretty parsonage was locked up, cold, dark, empty.

She used to talk of what she would do for her own peoplethe poor old father, buried alive in a damp parsonage, and struggling every winter with chronic bronchitis; the four younger sisters pining in dulness and penury; the mother who hardly knew what it was to rest from the continual worries of daily life.' 'Poor things!' sighed Lesbia, gazing admiringly at the handle of her last new sunshade.

My village, my poor belfry, my humble parsonage, my liberty, and my Suzanne!" By his dejected look, his uncle and the Comtesse believed he had not succeeded.

He was one of the founders of the Church of the Covenant and had also aided liberally in building its pleasant parsonage.

He has also a neat, well-situated parsonage, on the south eastern side of the town, a good garden, which has been the scene of many lovely sights, and a neat patch of ground beyond.

Little did any one imagine that the authoress lived far away from the busy haunts of men in a quiet northern parsonage, leading a gentle, sad life; for her two sisters, whom Charlotte loved as her own life, were very delicate, and their one brother, in whom they had placed great hopes, had given way to drink.

Master Harry has gone back to the parental parsonage, and is there eating the bread of affliction and drinking the waters of poverty.

" A little while afterwards the whole peaceful parsonage of Upper Wood lay in deep sleep; only old 'Lizebeth went about the passage calling: "Bs, bs, bs."

The lord and lady proved to be Sir James and his daughter, who had arrived to stay with his friends in the remote parsonage of Foston-le-Clay a few days, and had sent a letter, which arrived the day afterwards to announce their visit.

From their early days, as sons in a most respectable Lutheran parsonage in North Germany, both had shown enormous hunger for cultural information, both had been voracious in exploiting the great libraries within their reach.

After Jane Eyre came Shirley, written in a period of great sorrow, for her two loved sisters died within a short space of each other, not long after the death of their unhappy brother, and Charlotte was left alone in the quiet, sad parsonage with only her aged father.

Three days later they laid her by the side of her husband, and the gray-haired, childless old people, and the golden-haired, fatherless and motherless boy, returned together broken-hearted to the sunny parsonage.

The vestibule of the castle (used as a temporary parsonage) is a low stable; above it the kitchen, in which are two little beds joining to each other.

At the present writing, Fall River holds a most respectable rank as a charge, has a good Church, and a convenient Parsonage.

He did not speak until the car stopped at the gate of the little unpainted parsonage beside the white, weather-boarded church.

Willingly would he have left behind him his honour and his reputation, willingly would he have torn his priestly robe on the sharp points of infamy and scandal, willingly would he have quitted for ever that cursed parsonage where shame and humiliation, vice and remorse were henceforth installed; but Suzanne, would she follow him?

It was a mind which unfolded first under the plain, manly discipline of an old-fashioned English country parsonage, where the unshowy piety and strong morality and modest theology of the middle age of Anglicanism, the school of Pearson, Bull, and Wilson, were supreme.

This gray, sad-looking parsonage, so close to the still sadder churchyard, is a spot of more than ordinary interest, for it was the home of the Brontësthat wonderfully gifted and extraordinary family!

Past the church and the lonely parsonage are the wide moors, high, wild, and desolate, up above the world, solitary and silent.