a pathetic story of disappointed love might have had some romantic interest attached to her but no such story had either been known or invented concerning her and the general impression was quite in accordance with the fact that both the sisters were old maids for the reason that they had never received an eligible offer nevertheless to speak the existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world it can be shown to ttie price of bread and the rate of wages to call forth many evil from the selfish and many from the sympathetic and in other ways to play no part in the tragedy of life and if that handsome blooded clergyman the had not had these two hopelessly maiden sisters his lot would have been shaped quite he very likely have taken a comely wife in his youth and now when his hair was getting gray under the powder would have had tall sons and blooming daughters � such possessions in short as men commonly think wiu repay them for all the labor thej take under the sun as it was with all his three no more than seven hundred a year and seeing no way of keeping his splendid mother and his sickly sister not to reckon a second sister who was usually spoken of without any in such lady like ease as became their birth and habits and at the same time of providing for a family of his own � he remained you see at the age of eight and forty a bachelor not making any merit of that but saying if any one alluded to it that he made it an excuse for many which a wife would never have allowed him and perhaps he was the only person in the world who did not think his sisters uninteresting and superfluous for his was one of these sweet blooded natures that never know a narrow or a thought � if you will � with no enthusiasm no self sense of duty but yet as you have seen of a sufficiently subtle moral fibre to have an tenderness for obscure and monotonous suffering it was indulgence that made him his mother s hardness toward her daughters which was the more striking from its contrast with her fondness toward himself he held it no virtue to frown at faults see the between the impression a man makes on you when yon walk by his side in familiar talk or look at him m his home and the figure he makes when seen from a lofty historical level or even in the eyes of a critical neighbor who thinks of him as an embodied system or opinion rather than as a man mr the preacher stationed at had mr m a general statement the church clergy in the district whom he described as men given up to the of the flesh and the pride of hfe hunting and shooting and their own houses asking what shall wc eat and what shall we drink and shall we be clothed � careless of the bread of life to their flocks at best but a and morality and in the souls of men by receiving money for the pastoral office in where they did not so much as look on the faces of the people more than once a year the historian too looking into reports of that period finds honorable members zealous for the church and with any sympathy for the tribe of making statements scarcely melancholy than that of mt and it is impossible for me to say that mr was altogether by the assigned him he really had no veiy lofty � no enthusiasm if i were closely i should be obliged to confess that he felt no about the souls of his and would have thought it a mere loss of time to talk in a and awakening manner to old or even to the blacksmith if he had been ia the habit of speaking he would perhaps have said that the only healthy form religion could take in such minds was that of certain dim but strong emotions themselves as a influence over the family affections and duties he thought the custom of more important than its doctrine and that the religious benefits the peasant drew from the church where his fathers and the sacred piece of turf where they lay buried were but dependent on a clear understanding of the or the sermon clearly the was not what is called in these days an earnest man he was of church history than of � and had much more insight into men s characters than interest in their opinions he was neither laborious nor obviously self denying nor very copious in giving and his you perceive was his mental indeed was rather pagan and found a in a quotation from or that was quite absent from any text in or but if you feed our young on raw flesh how can you wonder at its a relish for in after life and mr s recollections of young enthusiasm and ambition were all associated with poetry and that lay aloof from tho bible on the other hand i must plead for i have an affectionate partiality toward the s memory that he was not � and some have been so that he was not � and there is a that some have not been altogether free fr om that that although he probably have declined to give his body to be burned in any cause and he was far from all his goods to feed the poor he had that charity which has sometimes been lacking to very illustrious virtue � he was tender to other men s and unwilling to he was one of those men and they are not the commonest of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the market place the and the 