Keith now having rung the bell at Mr. Rimmon's pleasant rectory and asked if he was at home, the servant said he would see.
The rectory was an old-fashioned, substantial house, rusty with age, and worn by the stream of poverty that had flowed in and out for many years.
The old clergyman's church andrectory stood on an ancient street over toward the river, from which wealth and fashion had long fled.
I expect I shall have a good deal of work breaking in that interesting little quartette, for, after all, if my salary is to be raised, I may as well stay at the Rectory as anywhere else.
The Rectory at Super-Ashton was a large, sunny, cheerful house.
My son has got a pony and cart, and he'll drive you over to the Rectory in a twinkling, after your appetites are satisfied.
She held out her hand to Ann without a word, and the Delaneys and Dolmans entered the cheerful Rectory in a body.
Where would she take a catching complaint in a wholesome, well-sanitated rectory like this?
They must be missed at the Rectory by this time, and they'll be sendin' people out to look for 'em.
The moment its sonorous notes were heard pealing over the Rectory garden, little Ann got up soberly, and Lucy and Mary also rose to their feet.
Well, all I can say is this--when they come to live at the Rectory they will have to be teetotalers.
It was fifteen miles away from the Rectory of Super-Ashton.
Hester silently went to her almirah, remembering a little box of colouring powders which had been given her by a visitor to the Rectory when some charades were on foot, and her brothers had to be hastily transformed into Red Indians.
No letter from Mark Cheveril ever reached the Rectory now; but Hester had still one link with her short wedded life which she clung to.
Two years after the eventful morning of her departure from Madras, Hester was seated one afternoon in her favourite nook in the Rectory garden.
Even when he was at the Rectory after our engagement, which you know was very short, he wouldn't go out with Charlie and me.
But I'm glad you've thought of the Rectory people.
The older lady held out her hand cordially; and when Mark looked into the refined, kindly face he felt sure that the daughter of the Pinkthorpe Rectory would have at least one wholly congenial friend.
The day before his departure, Ffrench walked over to the rectory to say good-bye to Dr.
Lynn, and the clergyman accompanied him to the foot of the rectory lawn, and thence, through a wicket gate that opened upon the churchyard, along the narrow path among the graves.
There had been an evident improvement around the rectory since I had last seen it.
Mr. Beebe, at leisure for life's amenities, leant over his Rectory gate.
I move into the Rectory at Summer Street next June.
To think that evening at the rectory that she shouldn't have heard your father was in the house.
She tore us apart twice, but in therectory that evening she was given one more chance to make us happy.
The meeting at the Rectory had passed off well enough.
It is kept locked, and it takes ten minutes to walk to the rectory to get the key--too far for the patience of those who would merely wish for rest and refreshment in the cool and sacredness of a country church.
The door is locked, and the keys are kept at the rectory a mile away: the sexton, next door to the church, is not allowed a key.
The only child of an English clergyman, the walls of the rectory garden had been the boundary of her little world.
Easter had always come to Mildred with the freshness of country meadows, with cowslips and crocuses, with the soft green of budding hedgerows and a chorus of twittering bird-calls in the old rectory garden.
They were to be busy times at the Rectory that winter, for the servants left in charge heard that there was to be a great deal of company.
He paused again, hesitating as he neared the rectory gates, and for a moment he seemed as if he would enter.
So all the smiles and sweetness of the sisters were lavished upon the rectory girls for their brother's sake.
But the Rector was in a most genial frame of mind, and father and son came back to the rectory in the highest of spirits, Cyril bounding up to his mother's room without a trace of illness left.
Jock Morrison did not pretty well break Cyril's neck, for a very few days after Mr Paulby had the full management of Lawford Church again, the family at the rectorybeing once more in town.
The old lady used to have it that you were too fine for me, Polly, and would have been setting your cap at one of the young gentlemen at the rectory when you was abroad with them.
The idea of having Grace Crawley as a daughter at the Plumstead Rectory was too much for the archdeacon, and he resented it by additional vehemence to the tone of his voice, and a nearer personal approach to the wife of his bosom.
She knew well how odious was the name of Crawley in her husband's ears, and she felt that the less that was said at present about the Crawleys the better for the peace of the rectory at Plumstead.
And thus things at the rectorygot themselves arranged.
It was not often that the rectory carriage-horses were allowed to make long journeys.
But, now and again, since her August marriage, she had laid her coroneted head upon one of the old rectory pillows for a night or so, and, on such occasions all the Plumsteadians had been loud in praise of her condescension.
How could he, having come forth as a bird fledged from such a nest as the rectory at Plumstead Episcopi?
There were no prayers at Plumstead rectory that morning.
When he drove into the rectory yard, his father was standing there before him.
Next, the Duchy gave me the rectoryof South Wingley.
The dignity of a housekeeper did not encourage too much familiarity with a person who was at the Rectory on justice-business, and whose character might seem in her eyes somewhat precarious; but she was civil, although distant.
The Rectory of Cherry Hinton two and a half miles south-east of Cambridge, on the way to the village of Balsham, is no less important in the history of the Ely scholars.
The rectory of Chesterton, which had pertained till then to the monastery of Vercelli, was given by Eugenius IV.
Michael's rectoryhouse which passed to the family of Sir John Cambridge in 1311 was by him bequeathed to Corpus Christi College, and became the nucleus of Gonville Hall.
He might indeed hold a rectory or a vicarage, when he could get one.
The person thus admitted was to be capable of holding any rectory or vicarage in the kingdom.
We start for Elmstoke Rectory on Tuesday morning; so, if you mean to give us your signature, you must make up your mind pretty quickly, Pilgrim.
Half an hour later, Sylvester came back to the Rectory with a rapid step and brilliant eyes, but with an amount of mud on his trousers that required explanation.
He saw her once again; for she came to the Rectory on the next afternoon, just as he was setting out on his journey.
But Evans is a very good agent, and the Rectory people look after the tenants.
In 1654 Lightfoot had been chosen vice-chancellor of the university of Cambridge, but continued to reside by preference at Munden, in the rectory of which, as well as in the mastership of Catharine Hall, he was confirmed at the Restoration.
From the rectory of Briarsleigh with its shrouded windows, and the homely conversation of two of the parishioners, we must lead the reader to a far different scene.
The second of these, which is decidedly more complex and mystifying, refers to a rectory in Co.
Mrs Western was less interested than the rest of the Rectory party in the mysterious strangers who had so disturbed the Hathercourt devotions this Sunday morning.
More than an hour later, when she and the children were close to the Rectory gate on their return home, little Brooke, who was of an observant turn of mind, called her attention to some fresh hoof marks on the gravel drive.
Shouldn't Basil or George run back and ask them if they would like to wait at the Rectory till their carriage comes?
And again she seemed to see herself looking up into Mr Cheviott's face in the porch, while she asked him to come into the Rectory to rest.
It came, as the letters generally did, at breakfast-time, an hour at which there was but little possibility of privacy for any of the Rectory party.
So fast that when they drew up at the Rectory gates there was as yet no sound of Dr Brandreth's wheels in the distance.
She was not to stay at Hathercourt, the Rectory being just released from the hands of painters and decorators, and unfit for habitation, and Mrs Greville delighted to seize the chance of a visit from one of her old favourites.
The days went on, and things at Hathercourt Rectory looked much the same as usual.
And then we would walk on quite silently, father wrapped in the past, till we reached the ivy-covered rectory and the lights, and the daily routine of life was taken up once more.
It has had a full complement of twenty men ever since, and the acquisition of the rectory of Bethnal Green when I became Rector of Bethnal Green in 1895, enabled us for some time to have thirty workers--all laymen with the exception of myself.
It seemed to me that the maples in front of St. Michael's rectory were rather more depressingly gaudy than elsewhere in Gormanville; but I believe they were only thicker.
They had reached the front of the church, and whom should they meet but Father Collins hurrying out from the vestry on his way to the rectory across the street.
In theRectory House at Whitchurch, in Shropshire, built by Richard Newcome, D.
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