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Framley Parsonage

CHAPTER XIV
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In other trades, professions, and lines of life, men are paid according to their work.

Let it be so in the Church.
Such will sooner or later be the edict of a utilitarian, reforming, matter-of-fact House of Parliament.
I have a scheme of my own on the subject, which I will not introduce here, seeing that neither men nor women would read it.

And with reference to this matter, I will only here further explain that all these words have been brought about by the fact, necessary to be here stated, that Mi.

Crawley only received one hundred and thirty pounds a year for performing the whole parochial duty of the parish of Hogglestock.

And Hogglestock is a large parish.


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