It seemed very odd to me for a long while, the preachin' without book, an' the stannin' up to one long prayer, istid o' changin' your postur.

But la! there's nothin' as you mayn't get used to i' time; you can al'ys sit down, you know, before the prayer's done.

The ministers say pretty nigh the same things as the Church parsons, by what I could iver make out, an' we're out o' chapel i' the mornin' a deal sooner nor they're out o' church.

An' as for pews, ourn's is a deal comfortabler nor aeny i' Milby Church.' Mrs.Jerome, you perceive, had not a keen susceptibility to shades of doctrine, and it is probable that, after listening to Dissenting eloquence for thirty years, she might safely have re-entered the Establishment without performing any spiritual quarantine.

Her mind, apparently, was of that non-porous flinty character which is not in the least danger from surrounding damp.