Entrust yourself to them.

Do what they think right." Now if aught were known in Exeter of Miss Stanbury, this was known,--that if any clergyman volunteered to give to her, unasked and uninvited, counsel, either ghostly or bodily, that clergyman would be sent from her presence with a wigging which he would not soon forget.

The thing had been tried more than once, and the wigging had been complete.

There was no more attentive listener in church than Miss Stanbury; and she would, now and again, appeal to a clergyman on some knotty point.

But for the ordinary authority of spiritual pastors and masters she shewed more of abstract reverence than of practical obedience.
"I'm sure Priscilla does the best she can," said Dorothy, going back to the old subject.
"Ah,--well,--yes.