"You'll not meddle with trade again ?" said he, leaning his elbow on the mantelpiece.
"No; I think not." "You would be a fool if you did.

Probably, after all, you'll think better of your uncles' proposal and go into the Church." "A singular regeneration must take place in my whole inner and outer man before I do that.

A good clergyman is one of the best of men." "Indeed! Do you think so ?" interrupted Hunsden, scoffingly.
"I do, and no mistake.

But I have not the peculiar points which go to make a good clergyman; and rather than adopt a profession for which I have no vocation, I would endure extremities of hardship from poverty." "You're a mighty difficult customer to suit.

You won't be a tradesman or a parson; you can't be a lawyer, or a doctor, or a gentleman, because you've no money.