That is a humiliating experience." "She spoke as if she were a trial to her brother and his wife." "I think she is.

I have a sort of sympathy with Gresley as regards his sister.

He has been kind to her according to his lights, and if she could write little goody-goody books he would admire her immensely, and so would half the neighborhood.

It would be felt to be suitable.

But Hester jars against the preconceived ideas which depute that clergymen's sisters and daughters should, as a matter of course, offer up their youth and hair and teeth and eyesight on the altar of parochial work.
She does and is nothing that long custom expects her to do and be.
Originality is out of place in a clergyman's family, just because it is so urgently needed.