Is it not a scandal, that an educated gentleman with a family should be made to work half his life, and perhaps the whole, for a pittance of seventy pounds a year!" Mark said that it was a scandal, and thought of Mr.Evan Jones and his daughter; and thought also of his own worth, and his own house, and his own nine hundred a year.
"And yet you clergymen are so proud--aristocratic would be the genteel word, I know--that you won't take the money of common, ordinary poor people.

You must be paid from land and endowments, from tithe and church property.

You can't bring yourself to work for what you earn, as lawyers and doctors do.

It is better that curates should starve than undergo such ignominy as that." "It is a long subject, Miss Dunstable." "A very long one; and that means that I am not to say any more about it." "I did not mean that exactly." "Oh, but you did though, Mr.Robarts.And I can take a hint of that kind when I get it.

You clergymen like to keep those long subjects for your sermons, when no one can answer you.