"No; on second thoughts, we'll have her to nurse us ten years hence, when we shall be two cross old invalids. Seriously, Hale! I wish you'd leave Milton; which is a most unsuitable place for you, though it was my recommendation in the first instance. If you would, I'd swallow my shadows of doubts, and take a college living; and you and Margaret should come and live at the parsonage--you to be a sort of lay curate, and take the unwashed off my hands; and she to be our housekeeper--the village Lady Bountiful--by day; and read us to sleep in the evenings. I could be very happy in such a life. What do you think of it?"
"Never," said Mr. Hale, decidedly. "My one great change has been made and my price of suffering paid. Here I stay out my life; and here will I be buried, and lost in the crowd."

Seriously, Hale! I wish you'd leave Milton, which is a most unsuitable place for you, though it was my recommendation. If you could swallow your doubts, you could take a college living; and you and Margaret should come and live at the parsonage - you as a sort of lay curate, and she to be our housekeeper - the village Lady Bountiful. I could be very happy in such a life. What do you think?'
'Never!' said Mr. Hale, decidedly. 'My one great change has been made, and my price paid. Here I stay out my life.'
