原文 (英语)

CHAPTER II. "There has never been occasion to use them since I've been in the parish," said Parson Dale. "What does that prove?" quoth the squire, sharply, and looking the parson full in the face. "Prove!" repeated Mr. Dale, with a smile of benign, yet too conscious superiority, "what does experience prove?" "That your forefathers were great blockheads, and that their descendant is not a whit the wiser." "Squire," replied the parson, "although that is a melancholy conclusion,