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At another tie of consu ladies had been to see hi had been extracted froed h; and there too I was gratified with the praises of Mr Weston, both from the sick reat comfort and benefit from the visits of the new parson, who frequently cauess sort of man' to Mr Hatfield; who, before the other's arrival at Horton, had now and then paid him a visit; on which occasions he would always insist upon having the cottage-door kept open, to ad how itopened his prayer-book and hastily read over a part of the Service for the Sick, would hurry away again: if he did not stay to administer sohtless, not to say heartless, observation, rather calculated to increase than di pair

'Whereas,' said the man, 'Maister Weston 'ull pray with me quite in a different fashion, an' talk to me as kind as owt; an' oft read to me too, an' sit beside me just like a brother'

'Just for all the world!' exclaimed his wife; 'an' about a three wik sin', when he seed how poor Jem shivered wi' cold, an' what pitiful fires we kept, he axed if wer stock of coals was nearly done I telled hietus; but, howsever, he sent us a sack o' coals next day; an' we've had good fires ever sin': and a great blessing it is, this winter time But that's his way, Miss Grey: when he comes into a poor body's house a- seein' sick folk, he like notices what they et it therseln, he never says nowt about it, but just gets it for 'em An' it isn't everybody 'at 'ud do that, 'at has as little as he has: for you know, ets fra' th' Rector, an' that's little enough they say'

I remembered then, with a species of exultation, that he had frequently been styled a vulgar brute by the amiable Miss Murray, because he wore a silver watch, and clothes not quite so bright and fresh as Mr Hatfield's