And here he met with a little more encouragement.

Mr.Robin asked where was Mr.Simpson gone to, and Dick told him he did not know, but that he would be back again by Easter, it was thought, or, if not, another priest would be in the district.

Then he began to gossip of Mr.
Ludlam; how a man had told him that his cousin's wife thought that Mr.
Ludlam was to go abroad to be made priest himself, and that perhaps Mr.
Garlick would go too.
"That is the kind of priest we want, sir," said Dick.
"Eh ?" "That is the kind of priest we want, sir," repeated Dick solemnly.

"We should do better with natives than foreigners.

We want priests who know the county and the ways of the people--and men too, I think, sir, who can ride and know something of sport, and can talk of it.