There was great trouble about the new curate, who is scandalously high.
The titular character is the new curate of the parish church of Shepperton, a village near Milby.
One night when Bran is getting drunk at a local tavern, a man named Arthur Nicholls, his father's new curate, arrives.
I had a new curate to do my work - Arthur Nicholls, a young man of twenty-eight.
I remember learning this lesson painfully when as a new curate I came to the weekly staff meeting in Cranham.
They are reported to have said 'The new curate's not chatty'.
This year also saw a new curate arrive on the scene, Johann Thelen, born in Monreal.
If all your new curate tries to teach us be true, the world need not look very dreary to any of us.
"And if you're the new curate, I'd better warn you that I'm a Baptist."
"Is not that the name of the new curate?"