It includes two populous villages, abounding in brickmakers, a race of men very troublesome to a zealous parson who won't let men go rollicking to the devil without interference.

Hogglestock has full work for two men; and yet all the funds therein applicable to parson's work is this miserable stipend of one hundred and thirty pounds a year.

It is a stipend neither picturesque, nor time-honoured, nor feudal, for Hogglestock takes rank only as a perpetual curacy.
Mr.Crawley has been mentioned before as a clergyman of whom Mr.
Robarts said, that he almost thought it wrong to take a walk out of his own parish.

In so saying Mark Robarts of course burlesqued his brother parson; but there can be no doubt that Mr.Crawley was a strict man,--a strict, stern, unpleasant man, and one who feared God and his own conscience.

We must say a word or two of Mr.Crawley and his concerns.