I think sometimes if she had been born and bred like her father's tenants' daughters, to sleep where they sleep, and hear the talk they hear, and see the things they see, what would she have been now?
We mustn't think of it.' And the keeper turned his head away, and fairly burst into tears.
Lancelot was moved.
'Are the poor very immoral, then ?' 'You ask the rector, sir, how many children hereabouts are born within six months of the wedding-day.

None of them marry, sir, till the devil forces them.

There's no sadder sight than a labourer's wedding now-a-days.

You never see the parents come with them.

They just get another couple, that are keeping company, like themselves, and come sneaking into church, looking all over as if they were ashamed of it--and well they may be!' 'Is it possible ?' 'I say, sir, that God makes you gentlemen, gentlemen, that you may see into these things.