I hope she will turn out well." "I dare say she will; she has got over the most trying age." "Did you go by the village of Kympton ?" "I do not recollect that we did." "I mention it, because it is the living which I ought to have had.

A most delightful place!--Excellent Parsonage House! It would have suited me in every respect." "How should you have liked making sermons ?" "Exceedingly well.

I should have considered it as part of my duty, and the exertion would soon have been nothing.

One ought not to repine;--but, to be sure, it would have been such a thing for me! The quiet, the retirement of such a life would have answered all my ideas of happiness! But it was not to be.

Did you ever hear Darcy mention the circumstance, when you were in Kent ?" "I have heard from authority, which I thought _as good_, that it was left you conditionally only, and at the will of the present patron." "You have.