As Vicar of Chuntsey, in Essex'-- he threw this in with an indescribable airiness of vanity--'I have never known such things happen." "What things happen ?" I asked.
He straightened himself with sudden dignity.
"As Vicar of Chuntsey, in Essex," he said, "I have never been forcibly dressed up as an old woman and made to take part in a crime in the character of an old woman.

Never once.

My experience may be small.

It may be insufficient.

But it has never occurred to me before." "I have never heard of it," I said, "as among the duties of a clergyman.
But I am not well up in church matters.