The words fell on the clergyman's ears as he closed the Vicarage gate behind him, and was passing up the path to his door.
Turning slowly out of the Vicarage gate came a good-looking clergyman of seven-or-eight-and-twenty.
At first she lived with her sister about a mile from Olney; but in a few weeks took lodgings at the vicarage here.
Between the vicarage and the back of our house are interposed our garden, an orchard, and the garden belonging to the vicarage.
For half a mile beyond the grey Church and Vicarage of Bleakirk it extends, forming the northern arm of the small fishing-bay, and protecting it from the full set of the tides.
I was as much at home to both, in fact, as I had been in the vicarage parlour standing beside dear little Miss Pimpernell's old arm-chair in the chimney corner!
I had gone to the vicarage to say a last good-bye to the dear friends there.
Fray Diego de Santa Maria was appointed to thevicarage and the charge of the hospital.
This same friar had held a vicarage before in another province, but having become an habitual drunkard, he was removed to Manila, and there appointed a confessor.
I want you to dine with me on Tuesday evening," Mr Musgrave said, as they turned in at the vicarage gate, "if Mrs Errol will be so kind.
The question recalled his own lonely fireside, the solitariness of which always struck him more forcibly while seated beside the cheery vicarage hearth.
Diogenes broke bounds again at about the same hour on a balmy evening in June; and Mr Musgrave hastened as before to the vicaragewith a second note to be entrusted to the handy sexton.
Mr Musgrave lunched sparingly and later set out for the vicarage for a chat with the vicar.
The Rev Walter Errol on entering the vicarage drawing-room found John Musgrave already there, talking with his wife.
The vicar and his wife stood at the vicarage gate and waved farewell to Mr Musgrave's guests as the car drove past.
The vicar left him to finish his work, and repaired to the vicaragefor the midday meal.
She felt that she would make one of them, and going up-stairs to get a hat, she presently found herself in the long, covered passage that connected the vicarage with the church.
He said it quite simply, with a little pride, possibly, that the vicarage which housed him housed a saint, too, but that was all.
In times when work was scarce, the vicarage staff boiled soup, like any cheap restaurant-keeper.
The vicarage of St. Elwyn's was one of those stately old red-brick houses, enclosed in a walled garden of not inconsiderable extent, that are still to be found here and there in north London.
She was conscious of all this, but, especially since she had been settled in the vicarage as a home, she was becoming conscious of many other influences at work upon her.
That abandoned hussy at thevicarage is an example of what I mean.
His vicarage remains, and on its lawn are still the three silver birches planted by his three daughters.
He had part of his education at the local Grammar School, but perhaps the better part at the Vicarage from his father himself.
Nor does thevicarage spoil the harmony of the scene, an old-fashioned low rambling house, to which a loftier hall adjoining, with its Gothic windows, lends a touch of distinction.
He disliked London and he rebelled against the dullness of life in a vicarage overrun with district visitors and mothers' meetings.
The fact is simply this: Any one seated in the gallery of the church which is at the west end, can see through the east window any person, or persons, walking in the vicarage garden.
The quiet life lived by the Brontes in the vicarage on the edge of the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire seems prosaic to the casual observer, but it had many weird elements of romanticism.
After the death of her first husband, Mrs. Bray married the vicar of Tavistock, and for thirty-five years lived in the vicarage of that town.
Arthur, at Emmeline's own desire, conducted his bride at once to the small yet comfortable home which had been prepared for her in his vicarage on Lord St. Eval's estate.
Can you consent to live in the humble vicarage of my estate, Emmeline?
A messenger was instantly despatched to Trevilion Vicarage to impart the joyful intelligence to Arthur and Emmeline, and the next day saw them both at Oakwood to rejoice with Ellen at this unexpected but most welcome news.
You should have had the vicarage itself; you should be better provided for, my dear Mr. Aubrey; I will speak to the Lord Chancellor.
The door of the vicarage was opened abruptly, and Maltravers entered with a hasty but heavy tread.
For encouraging the breed of horses in England, and improving of glebe and church lands, and for repairing and rebuilding parsonage and vicarage houses.
Swift resented this in such a manner, that to prevent making so formidable an enemy, he gave him the next vacancy--the rectory of Agher, and the vicarage of Laracor and Rathbeggan.
Whenever Swift left Laracor for a time, as on his annual journeys to England, the ladies then took possession of the vicarage of Laracor, and remained there during his absence.
I sometimes think it unfortunate that my mother should have remained at the vicarage after my father's death.
The dear old vicarage would still be their own; the trees which they had planted, the flower-beds which they had shaped, the hives which they had put up, would not go into the hands of strangers.
So at last they started from the vicarage door with many farewell kisses, and a large paper of sandwiches.
That letter was very anxiously expected at the vicarage of Hurst Staple.
When people reached Hurst Staple Vicarage about that hour, there was always something for them to eat.
He thought of the sad hours he had passed, seated idle and melancholy in the vicarage book-room, meditating on his forlorn condition.
The late vicar had been first tutor and then chaplain to the marquis, and the vicarage had been conferred on him by his patron.
The vicarage of Hurst Staple was in the gift of the noble family of Stapledean.
Handsome terms were quoted, the vicar looked upon the offer as a leading of Providence, and Arthur Saville's stay at the vicarage proved a success in every sense of the word.
Friends less sympathetic might have imagined that she was so happy in her new home that she had no care beyond it, but no one in the vicarage made that mistake.
Another quarter of an hour and the vicarage party would arrive, for they had been bidden a little in advance of the rest, so that Robert might help his mother and sister in receiving their guests.
And I shall be back at the vicarage then, and we shall all be together!
Arthur left the vicarage on Tuesday evening, seemingly much refreshed by the few days' change, though he still complained of his head, and pressed his hand over his eyes from time to time as though in pain.
Even the life in the vicarage would henceforth take new conditions, for Rob and Oswald would go up to Oxford at the beginning of the term, and their place be filled by new pupils.
Some older children are being educated at a Vicarage near Brighton, along with the vicar's own three.
On Saturday morning a dogcart came over to convey Robert to the Larches, and the atmosphere of the vicarage seemed charged with expectation and excitement.
As soon as the crazy woman had been secured, Luke had run to the vicarage for wine, and had ordered the sexton to bring the bier as the handiest means of conveyance.
John had called at the Crowle vicarage to assure my aunt I was in no present danger.
The chief constable deemed it advisable to set a watch over the vicarage for the night, himself remaining in command.
Dick did me the kindness to take Luke into his service for the time, who had come to me at the vicarage in hope to be employed; but there was no work for him, and I had no right to burden the vicar with another idler's maintenance.
I jumped out of bed, almost forgetting the aching and soreness of my head and the stiffness of my limbs, for, if this account were true, the inhabitants of the Crowle vicarage were in jeopardy.
He took my instructions sorrowfully, not to say sulkily, as to what was to be done with my belongings, the main of which I desired him to carry to the vicarage at Crowle, with a message to my aunt.
To our surprise we found the depth at the gate of the vicarage not more than two feet.
Pretty nearly all were of the same mind, and I returned to the vicarage dispirited and apprehensive, and so weary and spent and heavy with sleep, that I crept off and tumbled into bed, too tired even to talk with Mistress Goel.
The pot-bellied man left the vicarage soon after I received this account, taking with him fifty pounds, and the vicar retired to his study, perhaps for prayer.
The second pullet ran in neatly, got possession of the child by a well-directed peck, and went over the wall into the vicarage garden.
The vicaragepeeped not too ostentatiously between the trees beyond the inn, an early Georgian front ripened by time, and the spire of the church rose happily in the depression made by the valley in the outline of the hills.
And Dulce placed on her sister's lap a plate of yellow plums, perfectly bedded in moss, which had come from the vicarage garden.
By the people at the vicarage and the White House they were owned and regarded as equals.
When he was tired of sitting quiet, he would take refuge with Aunt Catherine in her little parlor, or go into the vicarage for a chat with Mattie and her brother: he was becoming very intimate there.
Dinner was nearly over at the vicarage when Mattie's step was heard in the hall.
The idea of having such pleasant neighbors located within a stone's throw of the vicarage was in itself disturbing to the imagination of a young man of eight-and-twenty, even though a clergyman.
I suppose Mrs. Williams is not bound to let the vicarage know directly she lets her rooms?
Nevertheless, Mattie's presence at the vicarage was felt by her brother as a sore burden.
We left our luggage, and only taking our handbags, we set off for the vicarage on foot in the dark and in a deluge of rain.
Perhaps our aunt, who was to leave us in a few days, would stay a little longer, though the approach of Christmas made it imperative for her companion to get back to the vicarage as soon as possible.
The vicarage people certainly hold a place by themselves in the typical English scheme; nothing is more remarkable than the progress the Church has made--socially--in the last two hundred years.
On the lowest fringe of these real Olympians hung the vicarage people, and next to them came those ambiguous beings who are neither quality nor subjects.
I don't know how we three got there, but I have an uncertain fancy it was connected with a visit paid by the governess to the Ropedean vicarage people.
Thus, in my second summer at Witching Hill, the Vicarage was practically rebuilt out of the pockets of parishioners; and we had no difficulty in providing a furnished substitute on the favourite woodland side of Mulcaster Park.
Miss Julia, which I slipped into the letter-box of the makeshift vicarage as the birds were waking in the wood behind Mulcaster Park.
Uniacke and his guest sat at supper that night, and all the windows of the Vicarage rattled in the storm.
Remembering the substance of the shadow he opened the churchyard gate, threaded his way among the gravestones, and was quickly at the Vicarage door.
Uniacke opened the Vicarage door and they stood in the wind.
