CHAPTER XII.
IN WHICH A VERY MUSCULAR CHRISTIAN INDEED, COMES ON THE STAGE.
For the first four weeks that the Vicar lay paralyzed, the neighbouring clergymen had done his duty; but now arose a new difficulty at Drumston.

Who was to do the duty while the poor Vicar lay there on his back speechless?
"How," asked Miss Thornton of Tom Troubridge, "are we to make head against the dissenters now?
Let the duty lapse but one single week, my dear friend, and you will see the chapels overflowing once more.

My brother has always had a hard fight to keep them to church, for they have a natural tendency to dissent here.

And a great number don't care what the denominations are, so long as there is noise enough." "If that is the case," answered Tom, "old Mark Hook's place of worship should pay best.

I'd back them against Bedlam any day." "They certainly make the loudest noise at a Revival," said Miss Thornton.