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It’s a large village with a very active social spirit and I know Emma and Adrian get involved in a lot of the activities which, as has been the case throughout the centuries, are in the main organised by the church generally and, more specifically, by the vicar
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From what Emma has told me over the years, the vicar is something of an eccentric … well, free thinker is probably more accurate
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As soon as he met me (so he says) he decided that I was the one for him though I was not at all sure I wanted to marry a vicar
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’ The vicar commented while I made coffee for him
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He turns the conversation to the memorial service saying how well he felt the vicar dealt with it
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I call the vicarage, the vicar answers, ‘Hello, it’s Jo Symons here – is Jane around?’ He tells me that she’s gone out but will be back later, and offers to take a message
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‘I had a chat with the vicar today
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This is all getting to be rather respectable – entertaining the vicar
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‘You’re upsetting the cat, you idiot! Oh, the vicar said to phone him if we wanted to practise for the wedding
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Apart from going through the service, which Peter wants to do with us quietly in church in his capacity as vicar, that is about it for the arrangements for Tuesday
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10 October – Vicar came round
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The Vicar put his finger on it when he said that the loss of that one baby – and the guilt of that murder has never left me – has resulted in the safe sheltering of so many more
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"Said he was the Vicar of Wakefield
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I don’t think Dad ever got over the shock to be honest – he was very much a man’s man, if you know what I mean, and thought being a vicar a soft option
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It’s good for the kids to see the vicar in their environment and not just in the church
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I forget which church it was we were in, but I later heard that the vicar insisted that this tune was used at one of his Christmas services - our influence is far reaching indeed!
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"To say nothing of the Vicar of Cumly
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"The vicar," she replied
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"The vicar wants ter 'ire the back field, but he insisted that the ditches are cleaned out first," Uncle Hobart admitted, still studying the photograph with avid interest
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"I sort o' told the vicar that you'd organise the fete fer 'im, didn't I?" he said
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"You sure you're up to this?" I asked Uncle Hobart, worried that, as it had only been a short time since Aunt Martha's funeral, helping to organise the fete for the vicar might prove a bit too much
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"What time's the vicar coming round then?"
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"Why don't yer get yer 'ead down fer a bit and I'll call yer when the vicar shows up?" he said
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I brought in VIP’s, including our local Member of Parliament; the Vicar of the nearby village, a couple of lady singers from London night clubs, anything I could think of to motivate them
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"The local vicar isn't that busy, and there aren't all that many relatives who need to be invited
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I am reminded of the story of the vicar walking through his village
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Sam decided that he wanted Ruth to heal quickly and he felt that he could help her so he took Ruth by the hand and they strolled into a small church somewhere in the burned out Town centre and found the vicar
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This particular morning, Holy Joe, the vicar, took up the theme of the first lesson which was about the proud Pharisee who thanked God in prayer for not being like other men
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About twenty guards for a start, with the Vicar following close behind
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“Now we'll never know what the Vicar wants from us
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The Vicar and his men had also heard the crashing noise and, after checking on this strange howling sound from the woods, went to check on their new prisoners
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The Vicar was horrified on finding the hut empty and, not only that; there was a great hole in the floor
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Deep in the earth below the Vicars feet, the Yid had been listening to everything being said by the Vicar
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The Vicar must feel that he has enough of what he came for
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The Vicar must have planned to take over all the churches and schools, so that he would then have even more children to collect goodness from?”
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It was just moment later that the Vicar was spotted, over in the distance, coming out of the woods; “Here he comes, the Vicar
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“Poo … what is poo?” asked the Vicar, checking that he hadn’t lost any of his
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“Somehow we need to get the Vicar into that chair over there under the cap
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The Vicar, now all covered in cow poo, stood in the doorway breathing rather heavily
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Moving out of the way of the Vicar, who then stood by the chair? “There's nothing to it really, one sits here and then, the switch over on the wall is used to bring the cap down,” he said
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Their timing couldn't have been better, as when the Vicar landed in the chair so
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” Archie was now right into the battle, but he also found time to dash across the room to stop the Vicar from getting out of the chair
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And then the people continued to watch the Vicar, wearing his Cap of Removal
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Then the Vicar smiled, “What a lovely day it is,” he said
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“What's happened to the Vicar, Lisa,” asked Anna
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Ed then reckoned it was time for home, and then he bursted out laughing , as he saw the Vicar attempting to walk through the woods
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“From what Lisa learned, the Vicar was determined to take over the world by using children, he‘d made bad
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The vicar announced the election of William Bradford as the new Abbot of Sherborne
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'The vicar thinks Bradford will ask Neville to censure the parish
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'The vicar announced it in All Hallows,' John said
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Richard had just joined them from All Hallows where the vicar had posted a bill, issued by Bishop Neville, announcing a public meeting
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Richard had a copy of the ordinance that the vicar had received from the sacrist
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He glanced at the vicar but he continued to recite the matins service as he had done thousands of times before
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He had just interviewed the vicar and it was his first opportunity to speak to Richard in private
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Elizabeth Baret smiled at the vicar as she stirred the bowl with a silver spoon
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He had a small stipend as vicar and drew income from rental properties bequeathed to All Hallows
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She found the vicar boring and a growing commotion demanded her attention
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The vicar had preached sermons on it
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The vicar tried to engage her in conversation as she hurried out
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The vicar has preached sermons on it
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The vicar put much drama into raising a finger before a flashing red button on the panel of dials and gauges, and he began building his cadenced preachment to a climax
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The vicar obtained some for me and they proved to be highly efficacious
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Richard was there as parish accountant, John Duffield as vicar and John Sprotert as a witness
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'I'm here at the lord abbot's command, Vicar
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"But she isn't a Jew," protested Audrey to her husband, while at the same time feeling rather relieved that the Vicar wouldn't see her
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Curates might have convulsive moments that would worry souls blanched white by the keeping out of the light, souls like celery, no whiter than anybody else's if left properly to themselves, but blanched by a continual banking up round them of episcopal mould; and even a vicar might conceivably sometimes be headlong; while as for a German pastor
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Edward Morrison, the vicar of whom I have spoken as venerable, coming slowly up the path leaning on his son's arm with the intention of going into the church in search of a mislaid sermon-book, saw Priscilla's thoughtful back under the elm-tree and perceived at once that it was a back unknown to him
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"Robin, what girl is that?" asked the vicar of his son
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"She'll catch cold," said the vicar
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"She'll certainly catch cold," said the vicar, concerned
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"Unwise," said the vicar
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"My dear young lady," said the vicar kindly, "are you not afraid of catching cold? The evenings are so damp now, and you have chosen a very cold seat
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"But I do think you ought not to linger here," said the vicar
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"Buy a cottage?" repeated the vicar
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"A bun?" repeated the vicar bewildered, for nobody had ever asked him that before
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She looked up at the vicar and his son, calmly scrutinizing first one and then the other, and they stood looking down at her; and each time her eyes rested on Robin they found his staring at her with the frankest expression of surprise and admiration
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"Quite so, quite so," said the vicar
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They both laughed; but the vicar gently shook his head
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"Well, well, I hope they'll make you comfortable," said the vicar; and having nothing more that he could well say without having to confess to himself that he was inquisitive, he began to draw Robin away
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Therefore she could go to church in Symford as often as she chose; but it was Fritzing's going that made her hesitate, for Fritzing was what the vicar would have called a godless man, and never went to church
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"You are a member of the Church of England?" inquired the vicar, seeing her hesitate
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"Indeed?" said the vicar, with all the interest that attaches to any unusual phenomenon, and a German in Symford was of all phenomena the most unusual
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"Ah well, well," said the vicar, vaguely soothing
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The vicar bowed slightly, and Robin asked with an air of great politeness but still with that light in his eyes if he were to address her, then, as Miss Schultz
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"By a most charming young lady," said the vicar, smiling
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"Here comes someone in a hurry," said the vicar, his attention arrested by the rapidly approaching figure of a man; and, looking up, Robin beheld Fritzing striding through the churchyard, his hat well down over his eyes as if clapped on with unusual vigour, both hands thrust deep in his pockets, the umbrella, without which he never, even on the fairest of days, went out, pressed close to his side under his arm, and his long legs taking short and profane cuts over graves and tombstones with the indifference to decency of one immersed in unpleasant thought
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It was not the custom in Symford to leap in this manner over its tombs; and Fritzing arriving at a point a few yards from the vicar, and being about to continue his headlong career across the remaining graves to the tree under which he had left Priscilla, the vicar raised his voice and exhorted him to keep to the path
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The vicar looked much puzzled
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"She said she was staying at Baker's Farm," said the vicar
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"I don't understand it," said the vicar
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"It is hardly credible that there should be two sets of German uncles and nieces in Symford at one and the same time," mused the vicar
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"I don't understand it," repeated the vicar, helplessly
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"But what, then," said the vicar's wife to the vicar when this news had filtered through the vicarage walls to the very sofa where she sat, "has become of the niece called Ethel?"
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"I don't know," said the vicar, helplessly
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Besides, she had an official position as the wife of the vicar and could and ought to call on everybody
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She it was who had used the trifling circumstance of a mislaid sermon-book to take the vicar and Robin into the church at an unaccustomed time, without which sermon-book they would never have met Priscilla in the churchyard and driven her out of it
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The vicar, and my son too when he's at home, set beautiful examples
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The vicar went every day and sat with her and said that he came away refreshed
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What she meant by speaking to the vicar was a vigorous stirring of him up to wrath; but you cannot stir up vicars if they are truly good
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The vicar was a pious and patient old man, practiced in forgiveness, in overlooking, in waiting, in trying again