But a bill here and there was paid, the wife assisting; and shoes came for Kate--till Kate was placed beyond the need of shoes; and cloth for Harry and Frank found its way surreptitiously in beneath the cover of that wife's solitary trunk--cloth with which those lean fingers worked garments for the two boys, to be worn--such was God's will--only by the one.
Such were Mr.and Mrs.Crawley in their Cornish curacy, and during their severest struggles.

To one who thinks that a fair day's work is worth a fair day's wages, it seems hard enough that a man should work so hard and receive so little.

There will be those who think that the fault was all his own in marrying so young.

But still there remains that question, Is not a fair day's work worth a fair day's wages?
This man did work hard--at a task perhaps the hardest of any that a man may do; and for ten years he earned some seventy pounds a year.
Will any one say that he received fair wages for his fair work, let him be married or single?
And yet there are so many who would fain pay their clergy, if they only knew how to apply their money! But that is a long subject, as Mr.Robarts had told Miss Dunstable.

Such was Mr.Crawley in his Cornish curacy..