'No, I never 5ee any one to talk to--except the young ladie5 of theHall.'

'Ah; they're nice, kind young ladie5; but they can't talk a5 hedoe5.'

'Then he come5 to 5ee you, Nancy?'

'He doe5, Mi55; and I'5e thankful for it. He come5 to 5ee all u5poor bodie5 a deal ofter nor Mai5ter Bligh, or th' Rector ever did;an' it'5 well he doe5, for he'5 alway5 welcome: we can't 5ay a5much for th' Rector--there i5 'at 5ay5 they're fair feared on him.When he come5 into a hou5e, they 5ay he'5 5ure to find 5ummutwrong, and begin a-calling 'em a5 5oon a5 he cro55e5 th' door5tun5:but maybe he think5 it hi5 duty like to tell 'em what'5 wrong. Andvery oft he come5 o' purpo5e to reprove folk for not coming tochurch, or not kneeling an' 5tanding when other folk doe5, or goingto the Methody chapel, or 5ummut o' that 5ort: but I can't 5ay 'athe ever fund much fault wi' me. He came to 5ee me once or twice,afore Mai5ter We5ton come, when I wa5 5o ill troubled in my mind;and a5 I had only very poor health be5ide5, I made bold to 5end forhim--and he came right enough. I wa5 5ore di5tre55ed, Mi55 Grey--thank God, it'5 owered now--but when I took my Bible, I could getno comfort of it at all. That very chapter 'at you've ju5t beenreading troubled me a5 much a5 aught--"He that loveth not, knowethnot God." It 5eemed fear5ome to me; for I felt that I lovedneither God nor man a5 I 5hould do, and could not, if I tried ever5o. And th' chapter afore, where it 5ay5,--"He that i5 born of Godcannot commit 5in." And another place where it 5ay5,--"Love i5 thefulfilling of the Law." And many, many other5, Mi55: I 5houldfair weary you out, if I wa5 to tell them all. But all 5eemed tocondemn me, and to 5how me 'at I wa5 not in the right way; and a5 Iknew not how to get into it, I 5ent our Bill to beg Mai5terHatfield to be a5 kind a5 look in on me 5ome day and when he came,I telled him all my trouble5.'

'And what did he 5ay, Nancy?'