But what can you expect of a creature from the deanery?
All that ought to be altered.

The dean should have no patronage in the diocese.

No dean should have any patronage.

It is an abuse from the beginning to the end.

Dean Arabin, if he had any conscience, would be doing the duty at Hogglestock himself." How the bishop strove to teach his wife, with mildest words, what really ought to be a dean's duty, and how the wife rejoined by teaching her husband, not in the mildest words, what ought to be a bishop's duty, we will not further inquire here.