"Emily!"
"Oh don't look so grave."
"A man that would care about making a sensation, would not be fit to be a clergyman."
"Oh Everard, I am sure it is only good clergymen that do make a sensation."
"What do you call making a sensation?" he inquired.
"Why, to have every body saying what a splendid preacher, and praising you up to the skies."
"Of course every clergyman should aim to be a good preacher, but his sermon should be composed with the object of doing as much good as possible, the idea of getting praise by it should never enter his head."
"Of course I know I never should have done for a parson, if I had been a man I should have been a——."
"Lawyer," the children all shouted in a breath.
"Or a midshipman," said Emily.