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Dinah had let her work fall during this narrative, which she uttered in her usual si treble by which she always , and then went on with it as before Mr Iras deeply interested He said to hiue here: onein their own shape"

"And you never feel any embarrass woman on whom men's eyes are fixed?" he said aloud

"No, I've no roos, and I don't believe the people ever take notice about that I think, sir, when Godbush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was--he only saw the brightness of the Lord I've preached to as rough ignorant people as can be in the villages about Snowfield--men that looked very hard and wild--but they never said an uncivil word to me, and often thanked h the midst of them"

"THAT I can believe--that I can well believe," said Mr Irwine, eht, now? Did you find thens of any great work upon thee, towards whoreatly, when iven up to folly and vanity I had some private talk and prayer with her afterwards, and I trust her heart is touched But I've noticed that in these villages where the people lead a quiet life around and tending the cattle, there's a strange deadness to the Word, as different as can be froreat towns, like Leeds, where I once went to visit a holy woman who preaches there It's wonderful how rich is the harvest of souls up those high-walled streets, where you seemed to walk as in a prison-yard, and the ear is deafened with the sounds of worldly toil I think maybe it is because the promise is sweeter when this life is so dark and weary, and the soul gets ry when the body is ill at ease"

"Why, yes, our farm-labourers are not easily roused They take life almost as slowly as the sheep and cows But we have soent workmen about here I daresay you know the Bedes; Seth Bede, by the by, is a Methodist"