‘Of course he would,’ Caroline said with returning brightness. ‘Let’s go and ask him.’
Half an hour later the children, coming down a deep banked lane, saw before them the grey tower of the church, with elm-trees round it, standing among old gravestones and long grass.
A white faced house stood on the other side of the churchyard.
‘I suppose the clergyman lives there,’ said Caroline. ‘Please,’ she said to a pleasant-looking hook-nosed man who was mending the churchyard wall, and whistling ‘Blow away the morning dew’ as he slapped on the mortar and trimmed off the edges with a diamond-shaped trowel, ‘please, does the clergyman live in that house?’
‘He does,’ said the man with the trowel. ‘Do you want him?’
‘Yes, please,’ said Caroline.
‘Well, here he is,’ said the man with the trowel. ‘What can I do for you?’
‘Do you mean to say that you’re It?—the clergyman, I mean,—I beg your pardon,’ said Caroline; and the man with the trowel said, ‘At your service.’
‘I beg your pardon,’ said Caroline again, very red as to her ears. ‘I thought you were a working man.’
‘So I am, thank God,’ said the man with the trowel. ‘You see we haven’t much money to[54] spare. The parish is so poor. So we do any little repairs ourselves. Did you ever set a stone? It’s awfully jolly. The mortar goes on so nicely, and squeeze
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