ssisting; and shoes came for Kate--till Kate was
placed beyond the need of shoes; and cloth for Harry and Frank found
its way surreptitiously in beneath the cover of that wife's solitary
trunk--cloth with which those lean fingers worked garments for the
two boys, to be worn--such was God's will--only by the one.

Such were Mr. and Mrs. Crawley in their Cornish curacy, and during
their severest struggles. To one who thinks that a fair day's work is
worth a fair day's wages, it seems hard enough that a man should work
so hard and receive so little. There will be those who think that the
fault was all his own in marrying so young. But still there remains
that question, Is not a fair day's work worth a fair day's wages?
This man did work hard--at a task perhaps the hardest of any that a
man may do; and for ten years he earned some seventy pounds a year.
Will any one say that he received fair wages for his fair work, let
him be married or single? And yet there are so many who would fain
pay their clergy, if they only knew how to apply their money! But
that is a long subject, as Mr. Robarts had told Miss Dunstable. Such
was Mr. Crawley in his Cornish curacy.

CHAPTER XV

Lady Lufton's Ambassador

And then, in the days which followed, that friend of Mr. Crawley's,
whose name, by the by, is yet to be mentioned, received quick
and great promotion. Mr. Arabin by name he was then; Dr. Arabin
afterwards, when that quick and great promotion reached its climax.
He had been simply a Fellow of Lazarus in those former years. Then he
became vicar of St. Ewold's, in East Barsetshire, and had not yet got
himself settled there when he married the Widow Bold, a widow with
belongings in land and funded money, and with but one small baby as
an encumbrance. Nor had he even yet married her, had only engaged
himself so to do, when they made him Dean of Barchester--all which
may be read in the diocesan and county chronicles. And now that he
was wealthy, the new dean did contrive to pay the debts of his poor
friend, some lawyer of Camelford assisting him. It was but a paltry
schedule after all, amounting in the total to something not much
above a hundred pounds. And then, in the course of eighteen months,
this poor piece of preferment fell in the dean's way, this incumbency
of Hogglestock with its stipend reaching one hundred and thirty
pounds a year. Even that was worth double the Cornish curacy, and
there was, moreover, a house attac