Some parson, some smug crop-haired smooth-chinned sort

Of curate-creature, I suspect,—dived down,

Down, deeper still, and came up somewhere else—

I don't know where—I 've not tried much to know,—

In short, she 's happy: what the clodpoles call

'Countrified' with a vengeance! leads the life

Respectable and all that drives you mad:

Still—where, I don't know, and that 's best for both."

"Well, that she did not like you, I conceive.

But why should you hate her, I want to know?"