"Those of a tradesman," returned the rector; "narrow, selfish, and unpatriotic.

"Let me tell you, madam," cried the rector of the parish, looking around him pleasantly, and who was pretty constant, and always a welcome visitor in the family, "that a great deal of money is a very good thing in itself, and that a great many very good things may be done with it.

Mrs. Wilson had never seen the rector in the agitation, or with the want of self-command he was in, as she met him at the entrance of the house.

His father died comparatively young; and, when he was himself fifteen, his mother married the rector of Newry, the Reverend Thomas Skelton, whose influence over the six step-children of the household worked wholly for their good.

"Besides which," added the rector, "my present living was presented to me, about eighteen months since, by the deceased baronet.

" "I am afraid he has nothing to blame but his own indulgence," remarked the rector.

Can it be that she too is dead?" "No, she is not dead," replied the rector.

CROLY, GEORGE, a versatile author; designed for the Church; took to literature, and wrote in all kinds, poetry, biography, and romance; his best romance "Salathiel"; died rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook (1780-1860).

I may remark, in passing, that this course of conduct so disgusted the High-Church rector of the parish, that he not only ignored all new devils, (as Mr. Carlyle might have called them,) but talked as if the millennium, were un fait accompli, and he had leisure to go and hammer at the poor dead old troubles of Luther's time.

"If he will drop the little Drane," she said to herself, "I will drop the rector.

He sat like a king (for, excepting the rector, there was not another gentleman of his standing at Combehurst), among six or seven ladies, who laughed merrily at all his sayings, and evidently thought Mrs. Browne had been highly honored in having been asked to dinner as well as to tea.

Like most men of fifty or thereabouts, and like every man who finds himself at that age a bachelor rector of a remote country parish, Parson Chichester had collected a number of small habits or superstitionscall them which you will: they are the moss a sensible stone gathers when it has ceased rolling.

Morten Bruus is reported to have said that "he would force the rector to bring back his brother, if he had to dig him out of the earth."

The general guessing, however, ranged very wide, and included all sorts and conditions of men, from the Rev. Dr. Miller, then rector of St. Martin's, to the bellman in the Market Hall.

" "And the trade?" inquired the rector.

We both love God," "How do you know that?" interrupted the rector.

Every body liked the rector, and two or three loved him a little.

He may be called yeoman of the church That sweating does his work, and drudges on While lives the hopeful rector at his ease.

" "It is but fair to give my patients a chance now and then," returned the surgeon, who never met the rector but there was a merry passage between them.

Mrs. Ramshorn received their adieux very stiffly, and never after mentioned the rector without adding the epithet, "poor man!" Mrs. Bevis enjoyed the drive; Mr. Bevis did not.

His alacrity to do this was explained when he told her that he wanted to drop into the Rectory and persuade the rector to bring Dot that night to see the fun, to which plan Mrs. Errol accorded her ready approval, and even undertook to help with the persuading, to Bertie's immense gratification.

Bell Masters and Amy Duckworth had long been hovering on its borders, and the advent of so young and prepossessing a rector had instantly removed their last scruples as to infant baptism, and settled forever their doubts as to the apostolic succession.

"You didn't know it then?" rejoined the rector, with now an almost quizzical glance, in which hovered a little doubt.

"No, no," remonstrated her rector; "that isn't matrimony: that's the definition of purgatory.

" The word liberal seemed to rouse the rector to the fact that his coachman sat on the box, yet another conscience, beside him.