I entered not this calling lightly, nor for gain alone, but from a settled care for people and the weighty consequence of the choices set before them. In years long past have I borne witness to lives in passage—houses joined and sundered; hopes newly lit, and labours of long standing brought at last to rest. In such hours, a dwelling is no common thing, but a vessel for memory, for striving, for the days yet to be writ. To hold it otherwise were ...