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| “You haven’t seen anything that looked like a parson, have you? You can generally spot ’em every time” | [Frontispiece] |
| “I’m blessed if you ’aint sewin’ white buttons on with black thread. Is anybody dead in the family, or ’aint you feelin’ well this mornin’?” | [62] |
| “Nicholas Burke, what in the name of conscience does all this idiotic performance mean, I’d like to know?” | [80] |
| “Oh well, I always believe that two young married people should start out by themselves, and then if they get into a family row it won’t scandalize the parish” | [126] |
| “I ’aint a chicken no more, Mrs. Betty, and I’ve ’most forgot how to do a bit of courtin’” | [140] |
| “I consider it a shame and a disgrace to the parish to have our rector in filthy clothes, drawing stone with a lot of ruffians” | [248] |
| “I’ve got a hunch, Sylvester Bascom, that it’ll be you that’ll have the last word, after all” | [280] |
| “Hepsey Burke, for all your molasses and the little bit of vinegar you say you keep by you, ‘There are no flies on you’ as Nickey would put it” | [308] |
