Page 50 (2/2)

'A quiet little vicarage, with an ivy-clad porch, an old-fashioned garden, and--'

'Oh, stop!--you'll make me sick How CAN she bear it?'

'I expect she'll not only be able to bear it, but to be very happy You did not ask ood, wise, or amiable man; I could have answered Yes, to all these questions--at least so Mary thinks, and I hope she will not find herself mistaken'

'But-- her life there, cooped up with that nasty old e?'

'He is not old: he's only six or seven and thirty; and she herself is twenty-eight, and as sober as if she were fifty'

'Oh! that's better then--they're well matched; but do they call him the "worthy vicar"?'

'I don't know; but if they do, I believe he ! and will she wear a white apron and s?'

'I don't know about the white apron, but I dare say she will reat hardship, as she has done it before'

'And will she go about in a plain shawl, and a large straw bonnet, carrying tracts and bone soup to her husband's poor parishioners?'

'I'm not clear about that; but I dare say she will do her best to make them comfortable in body and mind, in accordance with our mother's example'