"If he can be comfortable coming here, there can be no reason why he should be uncomfortable.

It would be an injustice to him to ask him to go, and a great trouble to your father to find another curate that would suit him so well." There could be no doubt whatever as to the latter proposition, and therefore it was quietly argued that Mr.Saul's fault, if there had been a fault, should be condoned.

On the next day he came to the rectory, and they were all astonished at the ease with which he bore himself.

It was not that he affected any special freedom of manner, or that he altogether avoided any change in his mode of speaking to them.

A slight blush came upon his sallow face as he first spoke to Mrs.Clavering, and he hardly did more than say a single word to Fanny.