[Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot]@TWC D-Link bookScenes of Clerical Life CHAPTER 11 5/14
It is rather a relief to me after speaking or writing. You know I have no great circuit to make.
The farthest distance I have to walk is to Milby Church, and if ever I want a horse on a Sunday, I hire Radley's, who lives not many hundred yards from me.' 'Well, but now! the winter's comin' on, an' you'll get wet i' your feet, an' Pratt tells me as your constitution's dillicate, as anybody may see, for the matter o' that, wi'out bein' a doctor.
An' this is the light I look at it in, Mr.Tryan: who's to fill up your place, if you was to be disabled, as I may say? Consider what a valyable life yours is.
You've begun a great work i' Milby, and so you might carry it on, if you'd your health and strength.
The more care you take o' yourself, the longer you'll live, belike, God willing, to do good to your fellow-creaturs.' 'Why, my dear Mr.Jerome, I think I should not be a long-lived man in any case; and if I were to take care of myself under the pretext of doing more good, I should very likely die and leave nothing done after all.' 'Well! but keepin' a hoss wouldn't hinder you from workin'.
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