Well, then, to begin with, the Rev.Mr.Conscience was a native of the same town in which his parish church now stood.

I am not going to challenge the wisdom of the patron who appointed his protege to this particular living; only, I have known very good ministers who never got over the misfortune of having been settled in the same town in which they had been born and brought up.

Or, rather, their people never got over it.

One excellent minister, especially, I once knew, whose father had been a working man in the town, and his son had sometimes assisted his father before he went to college, and even between his college sessions, and the people he afterwards came to teach could never get over that.

It was not wise in my friend to accept that presentation in the circumstances, as the event abundantly proved.