My New Curate

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''No,'' said I; ''but if you care—'' ''No use,'' said he; ''when he has made up his mind you might as well be talking to a milestone.'' ''And you must be off to-morrow?'' said I, consulting the bishop's letter. ''Yes,'' said he, ''short shrift.'' ''And who am I getting?'' I wondered. ''Hard to guess,'' said he. He was in no humor for conversation. The following week, that most melancholy of processions, a curate's furniture en route, filed slowly through the village, and out along the highroad, that led through bog and fen, and by lake borders to the town of N——.