He appeared worn and fatigued now, and after shaking hands with Mrs.Jerome, threw himself into a chair and looked out on the pretty garden with an air of relief.
'What a nice place you have here, Mr.Jerome! I've not seen anything so quiet and pretty since I came to Milby.

On Paddiford Common, where I live, you know, the bushes are all sprinkled with soot, and there's never any quiet except in the dead of night.' 'Dear heart! dear heart! That's very bad--and for you, too, as hev to study.

Wouldn't it be better for you to be somewhere more out i' the country like ?' 'O no! I should lose so much time in going to and fro, and besides I like to be _among_ the people.

I've no face to go and preach resignation to those poor things in their smoky air and comfortless homes, when I come straight from every luxury myself.

There are many things quite lawful for other men, which a clergyman must forego if he would do any good in a manufacturing population like this.' Here the preparations for tea were crowned by the simultaneous appearance of Lizzie and the crumpet.