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348 "I suppose so," but of course I should have said something more sensible and more polite if I had had my wits about me. We continued our walk for a minute in silence, which, however, was shortly relieved, (no small relief to me,) by Mr. Weston commenting upon the brightness of the morning, and the beauty of the bay, and then, upon the advantages A possessed over many other fashionable places of resort.

"You don't ask what brings me to A," said he. "You can't suppose I'm rich enough to come for my own pleasure."

"I heard you had left Horton."

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

F was a village about two miles distant from A.

"No," said I; "we live so completely out of the world, even here, that news seldom reaches me from any quarter—except through the medium of the Gazette. But I hope you like your new parish; and that I may congratulate you on the acquisition?"

"I expect to like my parish better a year or two hence, when I have worked certain reforms I have set my heart upon—or, at least,