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. 
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. 