I should hear less grumbling when my tithe is paid.
Casaubon was out of the question, not merely because he declined duty of this sort, but because Featherstone had an especial dislike to him as the rector of his own parish, who had a lien on the land in the shape of tithe, also as the deliverer of morning sermons, which the old man, being in his pew and not at all sleepy, had been obliged to sit through with an inward snarl.
Such a lady gave a neighborliness to both rank and religion, and mitigated the bitterness of uncommuted tithe.
Mama was filled with thanksgiving so thankful in fact that she vowed to tithe the family earnings to the Lord.
