“I do not recollect that we did.”
“I mention it,because it is the living which I ought to have had. A most delightful ce!—Excellent Parsonage House! It would have suited me in every respect.”
“How should you have liked making sermons?”
“Exceedingly well. I should have sidered it as part of my duty, and the exertion would soon have been nothing. One ought not to repine;—but,to be sure,it would have been such a thing for me!The quiet,the retirement of such a life would have answered all my ideas of happiness!But it was not to be.Did you ever hear Darcy mention the circumstance, when you were i?”
“I have heard from authority, which I thought as good, that it was left you ditionally only,and at the will of the present patron.”
“You have.Yes,there was something in that;I told you so from the first,you may remember.”
“I did hear, too, that there was a time, when sermon-making was not so ptable to you as it seems to be at present;that you actually dered your resolution of aking orders,and that the business had beenpromised ly.”
“You did! and it was not wholly without foundation.You may remember what I told you on that point,when first we talked of it.”
They were now almost at the door of the house, for she had walked fast to get rid of him;and unwilling,for her sister's sake, to provoke him, she only said in reply, with a good-humoured smile:
“r.Wickham,we are brother and sister,you know.Do not let us quarrel ab
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