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ed with. There have been many other 

 alterations, and they are now doing a great 

 deal to different parts of the ground, and 

 have made a new approach ; but you can- 

 not miss your way, if you turn to the right 

 at the end of the village, where you will 

 see a stone foot-bridge over the brook, and 

 a cottage, very much covered with ivy, 

 close by it." 



" I think/' said Mr. Seymour, as they 

 were walking on, " that there is a sort 

 of resemblance between the good old 

 parson's daughter and his house : she is 

 upright, indeed, and so are the walls, 

 but her features have a little of the same 

 irregularity, and her eyes are somewhat 

 inclined to look across each other, like the 

 roofs of the old parsonage : yet a clear 

 skin, clean white teeth, though not very 

 even, and a look of neatness and chear- 

 fulncss, in spite of these irregularities, 

 made me look at her with pleasure ; and, 

 I really think, if I were of the cloth, I 

 should like very well to take to the living, 

 the house, and its inhabitant. You, Ha- 

 milton, I suppose, were thinking, how 



