“Because of the presentation to the living,” replied the priest, “which government wouldn’t make him a compliment of, as he expected.”
“He is always expecting compliments from government,” said Corny, “and always getting disappointments. Such throws as you have, Harry—Sixes! again—Well, what luck!—all over with me—It is only a hit at any rate! But what kind of man,” continued he, “is this new clergyman?”
“Oh! them parsons is all one kind,” said Father Jos.
“All one kind! No, no more than our own priests,” said Corny. “There’s good and bad, and all the difference in life.”
“I don’t know any thing at all about it,” said Father Jos, sullenly; “but this I know, that no doubt he’ll soon be over here, or his proctor, looking for the tithes.”
“I hope we will have no quarrels,” said Corny.
“They ought to be abolished,” said Father Jos, “the tithes, that is, I mean.”
“And the quarrels, too, I hope,” said Ormond.
“Oh! It’s not our fault if there’s quarrels,” said Father Jos.
“Faults on both sides generally in all quarrels,” said Corny.