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"I mention it because it is the living which I ought to have had.

A most delightful place! Excellent parsonage-house! It would have

suited me in every respect."

"How should you have liked making sermons?"

"Exceedingly well. I should have considered it as part of my

duty, and the exertion would soon have been nothing. One ought

not to repine; but, to be sure, it would have been such a thing

for me! The quiet, the retirement of such a life, would have

answered all my ideas of happiness! But it was not to be. Did you

ever hear Darcy mention the circumstance when you were in Kent?"

"I have heard from authority, which I thought as good, that it

was left you conditionally only, and at the will of the present

patron."

"You have! Yes, there was something in that; I told you so from

the first, you may remember."