A wife's health must be the first consideration of every good man.

But isn't it rather lonely up there, Mr.Tomley ?" "Lonely, Lady Jones ?" the clergyman replied with energy, and shaking his white lock.

"I assure you that the place is a howling desert; a great moor behind, and the great sea in front, and some rocks and the church between the two.

That's about all, but my wife likes it because she used to stay at the rectory when she was a little girl.

Her uncle was the incumbent there.