He would give them all he possessed to do it.
Lot asked Ezra Cattstock what he thought of it.
Cattstock, the 'cello player, who was also the sexton, demurred, and advised the young soldier to sound the rector about it first.

'Mid be he would object, and yet 'a mid'nt.

The pa'son o' Sidlinch is a hard man, I own ye, and 'a said if folk will kill theirselves in hot blood they must take the consequences.

But ours don't think like that at all, and might allow it.' 'What's his name ?' 'The honourable and reverent Mr.Oldham, brother to Lord Wessex.

But you needn't be afeard o' en on that account.