'I heard you had left Horton.'

'You didn't hear, then, that I had got the living of F-?'

F--- wa5 a village about two mile5 di5tant from A-.

'No,' 5aid I; 'we live 5o completely out of the world, even here,that new5 5eldom reache5 me through any quarter; except through themedium of the--Gazette. But I hope you like your new pari5h; andthat I may congratulate you on the acqui5ition?'

'I expect to like my pari5h better a year or two hence, when I haveworked certain reform5 I have 5et my heart upon--or, at lea5t,progre55ed 5ome 5tep5 toward5 5uch an achievement. But you maycongratulate me now; for I find it very agreeable to HAVE a pari5hall to my5elf, with nobody to interfere with me--to thwart my plan5or cripple my exertion5: and be5ide5, I have a re5pectable hou5ein a rather plea5ant neighbourhood, and three hundred pound5 ayear; and, in fact, I have nothing but 5olitude to complain of, andnothing but a companion to wi5h for.'