It seemed, though, that she wanted very little.
He allowed Mr.Raymond to choose the design for this window.

He only stipulated that the subject should be Jonah and the whale.
"There's no story'll compare with it for trying a man's faith." When the window came, and was erected, he complained that it left out most of the whale, of which the jaws and one wicked little red eye were all that appeared.

"It looks half-hearted.

Why didn't they swim en all in?
'Tis neck or nothin' wi' that story; but they've made it neck _and_ nothin'.

An' after colouring en violet too!" In return, the Vicar had hunted up some county histories and heraldic works in the library at Tredinnis, and was now busy re-emblazoning with his own hand the devices carved on the Moyle pew.
Little by little, too, the congregation had grown.