执事

There is not among them an esquire, saving the unlettered magistrate.

他们当中除了那个目不识丁的事，没有一个乡绅。

The Latin Church had long recognized four minor orders (porter, lector, exorcist, acolyte) and four major orders (subdeacon, deacon, priest, bishop).

在拉丁堂里有四种较低的等：门房，读经人，驱魔师和伺僧；四种高等：副事，事，父和主。

The clerks and ryots, however, seemed duly impressed, and likewise envious, as though deploring their parents' omission to endow them with so splendid a means of appealing to the Zamindar.

，在场的事和农民却对此似乎印象深刻，他们似乎还有些嫉妒，仿佛在抱怨他们的父母没有赋予他们这种向地主请愿的卓越口才。