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A Pair of Blue Eyes

CHAPTER II
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They sank lower and lower.
'Endelstow Vicarage is inside here,' continued the man with the reins.
'This part about here is West Endelstow; Lord Luxellian's is East Endelstow, and has a church to itself.

Pa'son Swancourt is the pa'son of both, and bobs backward and forward.

Ah, well! 'tis a funny world.
'A b'lieve there was once a quarry where this house stands.

The man who built it in past time scraped all the glebe for earth to put round the vicarage, and laid out a little paradise of flowers and trees in the soil he had got together in this way, whilst the fields he scraped have been good for nothing ever since.' 'How long has the present incumbent been here ?' 'Maybe about a year, or a year and half: 'tisn't two years; for they don't scandalize him yet; and, as a rule, a parish begins to scandalize the pa'son at the end of two years among 'em familiar.

But he's a very nice party.


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