Anne.

'The only one now existing,' said Elizabeth, 'since Papa has made his
great horrid pew in the chancel into open seats.--Do not you remember
it, Kate? and how naughty you used to be, when Margaret left off
sitting there with us, and there was no one to see what we were
about--oh! and there is a great fat Patience on a monument on the
wall over our heads, and a very long inscription, recording things
quite as unsuitable to a clergyman.'

'I do not understand you, Lizzie,' said Helen; 'unsuitable as what?
Patience, or building chimneys, or making pews?'

'Patience is a virtue when she is not on a monument,' said Elizabeth.

'And neither pews nor chimneys can be unsuitable to a clergyman,'
said little Dora; 'there are four pews in the new church, and Papa
built a chimney for the school.'

Everyone laughed, much to Dora's surprise, and somewhat to Helen's,
and Elizabeth was forced to explain, for Dora's edification, that
what she intended by the speech in question, was only that it was
unsuitable to a clergyman to leave no record behind him, but what had
been intended to gratify his own love of luxury.

'I am sorry I said anything about him,' said she to Anne; 'it was
scarcely right to laugh at him, especially before Dora; I am afraid
she will never see the monument without thinking of the chimney.'

At this moment they arrived at the church, and all their attention