It was but a paltry schedule after all, amounting in the total to something not much above a hundred pounds.

And then, in the course of eighteen months, this poor piece of preferment fell in the dean's way, this incumbency of Hogglestock with its stipend reaching one hundred and thirty pounds a year.

Even that was worth double the Cornish curacy, and there was, moreover, a house attached to it.

Poor Mrs.Crawley, when she heard of it, thought that their struggles of poverty were now wellnigh over.

What might not be done with a hundred and thirty pounds by people who had lived for ten years on seventy?
And so they moved away out of that cold, bleak country, carrying with them their humble household gods, and settled themselves in another country, cold and bleak also, but less terribly so than the former.
They settled themselves, and again began their struggles against man's hardness and the devil's zeal.