He reminded Josiah Graves that parson meant person, that is, the vicar was the person of the parish.
Carey had finished her business with the banker, she generally went upstairs to have a little chat with his sister; and while the ladies talked of parish matters, the curate or the new bonnet of Mrs.
They'll make you pay, as fur as your money will go,' pursued the Deputy, 'for your relief as a Casual and for your being passed to your
Parish.
There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a
parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.
But the
parish is a large one--every man couldn't get through the business as I do.
Knightley, and residing in the
parish of Donwellvery creditably, she believedshe knew Mr.
Nothing was now wanting but the consent of the young lady; obtaining which, Launce would go to the
parish church and give the necessary notice of a marriage by banns on the next day.
It's the Methodisses as is like to get th' upper hand i' th'
parish, if Your Reverence an' His Honour, Squire Donnithorne, doesna think well to say the word an' forbid it.
The whole
parish declared she could not come honestly by such things; and parents, instead of wishing their daughters the same, felicitated themselves that their children had them not.
It was partly to this vague fear that Marner was indebted for protecting him from the persecution that his singularities might have drawn upon him, but still more to the fact that, the old linen-weaver in the neighbouring
parish of Tarley being dead, his handicraft made him a highly welcome settler to the richer housewives of the district, and even to the more provident cottagers, who had their little stock of yarn at the year's end.
And here have I been knocking about, year after year, from pillar to post, as if I was no more than the commonest feller in the
parish.
The vicar of their pleasant rural
parish was not a controversialist, but a good hand at whist, and one who had a joke always ready for a blooming female parishioner.
