But you'd have got it under favorable circumstances." "The fact is, Archie, I'm not very fond of the church, as a profession." "I should have thought it easy work.

Look at your father.

He keeps a curate and doesn't take any trouble himself.

Upon my word, if I'd known as much then as I do now, I'd have had a shy for it myself.

Hugh couldn't have refused it to me." "But Hugh can't give it while his uncle holds it." "That would have been against me to be sure, and your governor's life is pretty nearly as good as mine.