CHAPTER XXIX 430 are."
" Some calls it Marsh End, and some calls it Moor House." " And the gentleman who lives here is called Mr. St. John?"
" Nay; he doesn ' t live here: he is only staying a while. When he is at home, he is in his own parish at Morton."
" That village a few miles off? " Aye." " And what is he?" " He is a parson."
I remembered the answer of the old housekeeper at the parsonage, when I had asked to see the clergyman. " This, then, was his father ' s residence?"
" Aye; old Mr. Rivers lived here, and his father, and grandfather, and gurt( great) grandfather afore him."
" The name, then, of that gentleman, is Mr. St. John Rivers?" " Aye; St. John is like his kirstened name." " And his sisters are called Diana and Mary Rivers?" " Yes." " Their father is dead?" " Dead three weeks sin ' of a stroke." " They have no mother?"