He reminded Josiah Graves that parson meant person, that is, the vicar was the person of the
parish. Josiah Graves answered that he was the first to recognise the dignity of the church, but this was a matter of politics, and in his turn he reminded the Vicar that their Blessed Saviour had enjoined upon them to render unto Caesar the things that were Caesar's.
'
Parish!' She was up from the truckle-bed directly, wildly feeling about her for her basket, and gazing at him in affright.
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.
"Will the affairs of your
parish allow you to come back?" Emily asked mischievously.
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.
'I expect to like my
parish better a year or two hence, when I have worked certain reforms I have set my heart upon--or, at least, progressed some steps towards such an achievement.
When on shore, they lived in a populous London
parish, far away from the fashionable district of Berkeley Square, and further yet from the respectable suburb of Muswell Hill.
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....And how long hev this news about me been knowed, Pa'son Tringham?"
